Elsaesser Family Quotes & Sayings

Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt ... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth. — Saint Augustine

Life is to short and dull not to have a book you like in hand. — Peter Richards

Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here? — Steve Jobs

People will always make comparisons. — Don DeLillo

It all boils down to instinct, good or bad. Artistic creation must be spontaneous. It comes from the heart; it has to pass through the brain; and still one needs the guts, and good old, indispensable technique, to bring it to the light of day. That, at least, is how I see the process, not that I have ever been able to pin it down very exactly in my own case. You hear a voice inside. You obey it, and produce whatever it told you to produce; and then you wait and see. And oh! The trouble you're in for. — Maurice Chevalier

In the Woodstock movie, you see Justin, my son, who is now a filmmaker, being carried off by my wife at the time to the helicopter. He's just this little bundle of joy in her arms. And it's 1969. — Bill Kreutzmann

In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor. — Michelle Malkin

Wasn't he the one who sliced off his ear and mailed it to his girlfriend?"
"Van Gogh," said Varen, in a monotone that suggested he might be in pain.
"Van Gogh," Gwen said, leaning away, waving the apple. "Edgar Allan Poe. Close enough! — Kelly Creagh

Obey the principles without being bound by them. — Bruce Lee

This was why I hated beautiful people. They build you up and then they destroy you. And we let 'em. — Cassandra Rose Clarke

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were. — Ted Koppel

We originally meant each to write an excursionary "thriller:" a space-journey [his] and a timejourney (mine) each discovering Myth. — C.S. Lewis

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life. — Abu Bakr

The minute we look, we cease being afraid. — Michael Crichton

A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable. — Mason Cooley