Documentarians Quotes & Sayings

We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers. — Michael Moore

I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians. — Ava DuVernay

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else. — Stephen King

Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once been dismissed into the world, and can be no more retouched, I know not whether a very different conduct should not be prescribed, and whether firmness and spirit may not sometimes be of use to overpower arrogance and repel brutality. — Samuel Johnson

Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind. — Abhijit Naskar

I've kind of gotten more timid. I used to be fearless - at a certain point I didn't care about what anybody thought. I had all the answers and I could have been as bad as I wanted to be. But nowadays I just want to be good and make people happy. — Ariel Pink

I don't see what could be better to play a game and get paid for it. — Mark Mulder

May you occupy your mind with positive words. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As with the legal case of Irene Morgan, the woman arrested in Virginia's Gloucester County in 1946 for the same infraction, the battle over integration on Montgomery buses eventually won a hearing in front of the Supreme Court. Once again America's highest court ruled segregation illegal. The controversy over the bus boycott vaulted the young Dr. King into the national headlines as the leader of the civil rights movement. Langley — Margot Lee Shetterly

Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves. — Ronald Reagan

You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me! — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I have always been interested - indeed, waylaid - by the leading edges of technology, even during my Ph.D. years when I pioneered (but did not publish) agarose gel electrophoresis for RNA fractionation. Also, much later, I was instrumental in showing that Green Fluorescent Protein and RNAi could be made to work in mammalian cells. — Martin Evans