Avital Cohen Quotes & Sayings

When you write a scene where somebody is afraid of something you instantly go to decades of genre cinema: horror, suspense, and thrillers. Those are very cinematic genres, when you shoot a close-up of someone and you can see fear in the person's face, or anticipation, or some kind of anxiety, it's a very cinematic image. — Kleber Mendonca Filho

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity. — William Blackstone

I listen to all sorts of things. I get kind of embarrassed with my iPod, because I am a top-40 type of girl; I am not the kind of person to introduce people to new music. — Chrissy Teigen

In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence. — Samuel Johnson

The constrained body knows and values the freedom of the mind. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be - to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit as inscrutable. — Orson Scott Card

Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil. — John Fletcher

Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world. — Aldous Huxley

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth. — Christopher Hitchens

If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I would say I'm more patient, way more patient than I was when I came in [to the league], before the injuries. But I think just going through everything, just maturing a little bit more, getting older, you start to see what it is and I'm good. — Derrick Rose

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God. — Jamey Johnson

Golf is like love. One day you think you are too old and the next day you want to do it again. — Roberto De Vicenzo

Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith - a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered. — Daniel Kahneman

I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney. — Gregg Easterbrook