De Video Quotes & Sayings

'Chronicle' could have been a video-game movie. The original 'RoboCop' and the remake could have come from video games. — Michael De Luca

I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

It is clearly the case that programs in Europe and the United States that have increased biofuel production have contributed to the added demand for food. — Robert Zoellick

There's a contradiction in your thinking," I said. "If I took your dirty money, you wouldn't be able to trust my honesty. — Ross Macdonald

If an album or a video game exerts more influence on your child's mind, then you must ask yourself: what kind of a parent are you? — Lourd Ernest H. De Veyra

Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain. — Sharon Osbourne

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War. — Noam Chomsky

The more chemicals that are in our food, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of. — Ziggy Marley

When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible. — Iain De Caestecker

The biggest myth about comedy is that it's magical, unknowable, unteachable. Those who subscribe to that myth believe that the world is divided into two parts: those who are funny, and those who ain't. And if you ain't, well, sorry Charley, that's all she wrote. I have a simple response to that: Bull. — Steven Kaplan

Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop. — Ben Hecht

So annihilation is a kind of laziness. But it still provides the satisfactions of agency: I wreck, therefore I am. — Lionel Shriver

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck. — Bear Grylls

On August 16, 1996, when an eight-year-old female gorilla named Binti Jua helped a three-year-old boy who had fallen eighteen feet into the primate exhibit at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Reacting immediately, Binti scooped up the boy and carried him to safety. She sat down on a log in a stream, cradling the boy in her lap, giving him a few gentle back pats before taking him to the waiting zoo staff. This simple act of sympathy, captured on video and shown around the world, touched many hearts, and Binti was hailed as a heroine. It was the first time in U.S. history that an ape figured in the speeches of leading politicians, who held her up as a model of compassion. — Frans De Waal

I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

I am now convinced that we have recently become possessed of experimental evidence of the discrete or grained nature of matter, which the atomic hypothesis sought in vain for hundreds and thousands of years. The isolation and counting of gaseous ions, on the one hand, which have crowned with success the long and brilliant researches of J.J. Thomson, and, on the other, agreement of the Brownian movement with the requirements of the kinetic hypothesis, established by many investigators and most conclusively by J. Perrin, justify the most cautious scientist in now speaking of the experimental proof of the atomic nature of matter, The atomic hypothesis is thus raised to the position of a scientifically well-founded theory, and can claim a place in a text-book intended for use as an introduction to the present state of our knowledge of General Chemistry. — Wilhelm, Ostwald

Once I admitted the arguments of necessity and force majeure put forward by the less eminent, I couldn't reject those of the eminent. To which they retorted that the surest way of playing the game of the red robes was to leave to them the monopoly of the death penalty. My reply to this was that if you gave in once, there was no reason for not continuing to give in. It seems to me that history has borne me out; today there's a sort of competition who will kill the most. They're all mad over murder and they couldn't stop killing men even if they wanted to. — Albert Camus

Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don't always have to be strong to be there for each other
that it's okay to be weak, so long as we're there. — Colleen Hoover