Boxtrolls Full Quotes & Sayings

Self-fertilization is a risky strategy, which is why sex is so popular among large and complex organisms. — Randall Munroe

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art. — Conrad Hall

If a few nations step forward and begin changing the narrative of 'us and them' to 'everyone,' we will see a new dawn. If a few nations begin actually making operational a verification system we can all depend upon and push to bring all into such a system, we will all benefit. — Jonathan Granoff

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is. — Nicolas Chamfort

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India. — Mark Twain

Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication. — Natalie Imbruglia

One of the things that cause stress and strain in human social life is that it is possible, up to a point, to become aware of rational grounds for a behaviour not prompted by natural instinct. But when such behaviour strains natural instinct too severely nature takes her revenge by producing either listlessness or destructiveness, either of which may cause a structure imposed by reason to break down. — Bertrand Russell

The definition of success is total preparation. — George Allen

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality. — Robert Greene

Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nico: With great power, comes the great need to take a nap. — Rick Riordan