Eellike Quotes & Sayings

When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade. — W. Clement Stone

By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen. — Marvin Minsky

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined. — Mark Twain

The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too. — Ben Mendelsohn

On more practical level, sometimes joyfulness
could be more valuable than fighting for truth. — Toba Beta

Academic training actively deprives you of the qualities that make for good teaching. A good teacher speaks plainly, in vivid, accessible language, because she is addressing what amounts to a general audience. But the kind of jargon academics learn to use is designed to repel the uninitiated. A good teacher ranges widely, making connections among subjects as well as from learning to life. But academics are constrained to specialize, and increasingly, to hyperspecialize, looking neither left nor right as they plow their little corner of the field. — William Deresiewicz

You have to be mentally prepared to handle any challenge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I love it when a photographer lets me create my own movement and feeling to the images. By that I mean he doesn't restrict me in his or her own ideas but rather gives me a direction and lets me work within those boundaries freely. — Kylie Bax

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC. — Bill O'Reilly

A country either elevates the ignorant to the level of the learned or it itself sinks down to the level of the ignorant. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every intention sets energy into motion
Whether you are conscious of it or not. — Gary Zukav

As his counterpart, the woman completes or fills out a man's life, making him a larger person than he could have been alone, bringing into his frame of reference a new feminine dimension from which to view life that he could have known in no other way. Then, too, he also brings to his wife a masculine perspective that enlarges her life, making her a fuller, more complete person than she could have been apart from him. This marriage union by covenant solves the problem of loneliness not merely by filling a gap, but by overfilling it. More than mere presence is involved. The loneliness of mere masculinity or femininity is likewise met. — Jay E. Adams

Don't kick the horse's mouth that feeds you. — Ryan Fowler

Douglas Adams did not enjoy writing, and he enjoyed it less as time went on. He was a bestselling, acclaimed, and much-loved novelist who had not set out to be a novelist, and who took little joy in the process of crafting novels. He loved talking to audiences. He liked writing screenplays. He liked being at the cutting edge of technology and inventing — Douglas Adams

Fights take a long time to shoot. — Greg Bryk