Dircks Quotes & Sayings

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn. — Oliver Stone

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything. — Amy Chua

We need nearly every department, with the exception of police, fire and rescue, to look at what they can cut. Maybe there are some projects we need to put on hold. — Don Williams

One reason we're not winning the fight against depression is that our available treatments leave so many in partial recovery limbo. — Jonathan Rottenberg

(Official Interdimensional Travel Observation #2: you'd think that meeting yourself in another dimension would cause a total freak-out of the infinite order, pants-pissing, screaming, etc. But it's the total opposite: weirdly calming. Like "Hey bro, I know you! Let's go get a beer.") But — Rob Dircks

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding. — Marcus Aurelius

How do fields express their principles? Physicists use terms like photons, electrons, quarks, quantum wave functions, relativity, and energy conservation. Astronomers use terms like planets, stars, galaxies, Hubble shift, and black holes. Thermodynamicists use terms like entropy, first law, second law, and Carnot cycle. Biologists use terms like phylogeny, ontology, DNA, and enzymes. Each of these terms can be considered to be the thread of a story. The principles of a field are actually a set of interwoven stories about the structure and behavior of field elements, the fabric of the multiverse. — Peter J. Denning

The answer isn't another pill. The answer is spinach — Bill Maher

I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal's rotting carcass. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. — Matt Haig

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. — Robin S. Sharma

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are on the Colorado ... that means something more to me than thoughts of electrical power or a harnessed river. — Barry Goldwater

This is a story of art without markets, drama without a script, narrative without progress. The queer art of failure turns on the impossible, the improbable, the unlikely, and the unremarkable. It quietly loses, and in losing it imagines other goals for life, for love, for art, and for being. — J. Jack Halberstam