Clamar Quotes & Sayings

There was once upon a time a census officer who had to record the names of all householders in a certain Welsh village. The first that he questioned was called William Williams; so were the second, third, fourth.... At last he said to himself: 'This is tedious; evidently they are all called William Williams. I shall put them down so and take a holiday'. But he was wrong; there was just one whose name was John Jones. This shows that we may go astray if we trust too implicitly to induction by simple enumeration. — Bertrand Russell

I don't quite know what an auteur is. — Peter Jackson

Please don't tell him we stole it," Passalos begged. "He isn't nice at all!" "Who is he?" Jason asked. "What god?" "I - I can't say," Passalos stammered. "You'd better," Leo warned. "No," Passalos said miserably. "I mean, I really can't say. I can't pronounce it! Tr - tri - It's too hard!" "Truh," Akmon said. "Tru-toh - Too many syllables! — Rick Riordan

It's much harder to be an in-house person than an outside person. — Bob Gill

Fortify your dream with work. Unrelenting effort turns fantasy into reality. — Manuela George-Izunwa

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe. — Lev Grossman

Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity. — Robert Fulghum

People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage. — Robert Redford

More than anything, I wanted to help her write new words, on perfectly crisp, untouched paper, and to come up with a flawless title, for the perfect story. — Rachel Brookes

Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite the fact that our world is the poster child for habitability. — Seth Shostak

Wherever people are praying, there's always hope. — Karen Kingsbury

I though I screwed everything up," I say.
He smiles. "You're only one person. In the whole universe. You can't screw everything up. — Caela Carter

When I was looking at the Russian Constructivists, these agitprop artists actually painted on trains. It was a heavy influence. They were bringing art to the people, to the masses, and breaking it out of the clubbiness of the art world, which is a monolith. — Jeffrey Deitch