Balcer 6 Quotes & Sayings

I believe in the sun, even when it rains. — Anne Frank

Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl. — Rene Balcer

In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car. — Rene Balcer

The only thing we can do is try to find people whose scars compliment our own. — Cora Carmack

If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges, and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards in the cities or suburbs of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened, and in complaining the rest of his life. A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession,' for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

and when they didn't know what to do, they took a leap. But in that "leap," there is a lot to unpack. — Jeff Goins

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it. — Rene Balcer

It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good. — Rene Balcer

The first book, Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh was published in 1915. — Anonymous

The more I know, the less I sleep. — Rene Balcer

Justice is a jagged road. — Rene Balcer

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives. — Rene Balcer

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity. — Don King

I like coincidences. Seems like when you have a coincidence it is a clue to how the world all fits together, even though things may look to be wide apart. — Marilyn Oser

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it. — Rene Balcer

It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times. — Rene Balcer

Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist. — Bill Plympton

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules. — Rene Balcer

When we have complements or oppositions, change occurs. — Frederick Lenz

The only thing wrong with being gay is how some people treat you when they find out. — Robin Reardon

< ... > [Rainer Maria Rilke] speaks of absorbing Earth's phenomena with the full frenzy of human relish and insight as our destiny: It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again ... We are the bees of the invisible ... [Our work is] the continual conversion of the beloved visible and tangible world into the invisible vibrations and agitation of our own nature. — Diane Ackerman

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies. — Rene Balcer

Bad guys do what good guys dream. — Rene Balcer

Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time. — Mary Beth McKenzie