Degler Amusements Quotes & Sayings

I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago. — Bob Balaban

Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them. — Harvey MacKay

Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. — Susan Sontag

Plausibility is a trap for the truth laid by lies. — Yvan Audouard

The creation of virtual worlds had taken the place of advances in the physical world. "You can say the whole Internet has something very escapist to it, — George Packer

I don't think there's anything that I would really baulk at doing on-screen. I don't think so. I've got certain pet peeves about writing ... my pet peeve about reading scripts is when they give you a line reading and there'll be a line but next to your character's name it'll say 'very angry'. But I'm like: "Well, I'll decide that actually!" So, there's little things like that. That's a slight pet peeve. — Daniel Radcliffe

I fell out of the hammock while I was sleeping. (Arik)
On your head? (Geary)
Apparently. Good thing it's hard, huh? (Arik) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Quincy and Jake seem to be content to spend an enormous amount of time along together, which I count as romantic, but might simply be because they don't have a child: the Blues versus the world. — Sally Koslow

Beyond the town, darker than dark, King Haggard's castle teetered like a lunatic on stilts ... — Peter S. Beagle

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think. — Don Mattingly

Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful. — Nora Roberts

I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama. — John Landgraf

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed. — Ferran Adria

Just across the ocean in, say Kenya or Tanzania, a two-gender system is vital for the survival of most of the folks who live there. Men do men's work, women do women's work, and so it all gets done and the jackals can't get into the hut and eat grandpa. So, the future of the transgender movement is like the future of all human rights movements: whatever the state of things in your area now, with some work it all gets a little bit better all the time, even if it is sometimes three steps ahead and two steps back. — Kate Bornstein

Customers must recognize that you stand for something. — Howard Schultz