Bockstahler Family Quotes & Sayings

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. — James Agate

Before, I just don't think we knew how much music was out there; now with MySpace, it's really opened it up. Filmmakers have so much more choice. — Allison Anders

Alone isn't a bad place to be, especially when it's the alternative to distrust and unhappiness, but — Carolyn Brown

It is easier to talk about money
and much easier to talk about sex
than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails. — Edward Burne-Jones

I don't think anyone wants a movie on time that's not worth your time. — J.J. Abrams

That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it. — Luke Wilson

Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): "No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who engineered the revolt were largely members of the colonial ruling class." George Washington was the richest man in America. John Hancock was a prosperous Boston merchant. Benjamin Franklin was a wealthy printer. And so on. On the other hand, town mechanics, laborers, and seamen, as well as small farmers, were swept into "the people" by the rhetoric of the Revolution, by the camaraderie of military service, by the distribution of some land. Thus was created a substantial body of support, a national consensus, something that, even with the exclusion of ignored and oppressed people, could be called "America. — Howard Zinn

Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway. — Ozzy Osbourne

I got into the guitar at a young age, and it's a big part of what I like to do during my down time. — Jai Courtney

Not so much living, but a hovering without sense. — Ada Limon

People are fascinating. Especially the ones who hate me. — Rebecca McKinsey

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe. — David Brin

If there are questions that are unanswered by research, they will be answered by a strategy division, a data-mining group or someone else within the organization. We need to be more effective at collaborating with these groups. — Stephen Jin-Woo Kim

If it hadn't been for this chance hospital encounter, accidental in all senses, Victor might never have courted a girl. He already felt well on his way to middle age, and his social life was still limited to the chess club. Victor didn't really feel the need for another person in his life, in fact he found the concept of "sharing" a life bizarre. He had mathematics, which filled up his time almost completely, so he wasn't entirely sure what he wanted with a wife. Women seemed to him to be in possession of all kinds of undesirable properties, chiefly madness, but also a multiplicity of physical drawbacks - blood, sex, children - which were unsettling and other. — Kate Atkinson