Bernard Waber Quotes & Sayings

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself. — Harry Shearer

Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas. — Estelle Ramey

It amused him that women as a class were so wonderfully vulnerable, as if they believed that the codes of conduct that applied in their safe little hometowns, like Alva, Clinton, and Percy, might actually still apply once they had left behind their dusty, kerosene-scented parlors and set out on their own. — Erik Larson

I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans. — Rick Yancey

That's human nature - we want to completely rewrite history so it can be comfortable. Without getting too profound, I'm pretty sure that's where the invention of the afterlife comes from. "We don't really become worm food. We go to a magical place with bunnies and rainbows." — Bobcat Goldthwait

Your time on this earth is limited, don't live someone else's life, live by your vision — Steve Jobs

Most of the things that stop us aren't things that we can't do, but things we refuse to learn. — James Woosley

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. — Clement Freud

Thoughts need words. Words need a voice. — Sharon M. Draper

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth. — Steven Sinofsky

The poorer half of humanity needs cheap housing, cheap health care, and cheap education, accessible to everybody, with high quality and high aesthetic standards. The fundamental problem for human society in the next century is the mismatch between the three new waves of technology and the three basic needs of poor people. The gap between technology and needs is wide and growing wider. If technology continues along its present course, ignoring the needs of the poor and showering benefits upon the rich, the poor will sooner or later rebel against the tyranny of technology and turn to irrational and violent remedies. In the future, as in the past, the revolt of the poor is likely to impoverish rich and poor together. — Freeman Dyson

I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' - or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?' — Keith Richards

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through. — Barry Unsworth

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science. — Derek Barton