Esprinet Quotes & Sayings

It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great. — Tim Burton

What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest most eccentric historical phenomenon of them all? Answer:the Great British Empire. Clearly, one tiny little island could only conquer half the known world with supernatural aid. Those absurd Victorian manners and ridiculous fashions were obviously dictated by vampires. And, without a doubt, the British army regimental system functions on werewolf pack dynamics. — Gail Carriger

...she knew from school that that sort of literature was boring: Gorky was correct but somehow ponderous; Mayakovsky was very correct but somehow awkward; Saltykov-Shchedrin was progressive, but you could die yawning if you tried to read him through; Turgenev was limited to his nobleman's ideals; Goncharov was associated with the beginnings of Russian capitalism; Lev Tolstoi came to favor patriarchal peasantry - and their teacher did not recommend reading Tolstoi's novels because they were very long and only confused the clear critical essays written about him. And then they reviewed a batch of writers totally unknown to anyone: Dostoyevsky, Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, and Sukhovo-Kobylin. It was true that one did not even have to remember the titles of their works. In all this long procession, only Pushkin shone like a sun. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Sabbath on Saturday in favor of The Lord's Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected Judaizing (Mag 10.3), first use of term Christianity (Mag 10). — Josephus

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes. — Cristela Alonzo

Doesn't make any difference how hard the thing is or how much you want to do something else. Do the thing you first started and do it as well as you possibly can. — Annie Roe Carr

Why, so I do, the noblest that I have: — William Shakespeare

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator. — Olivia Newton-John

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art. — Questlove

A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions. — Leonid Hurwicz

I'm not biting my fingernails.
I'm biting my knuckles.
I finished the fingernails months ago. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz