Fannish Quotes & Sayings

Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn life's negative aspects into something positive or constructive. In other words, what matters is to make the best of any given situation. — Viktor E. Frankl

But why are we always the ones who have to suffer?" she cried out in indignation. "Us and people like us? Ordinary people, the lower middle classes. — Irene Nemirovsky

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Charles Baudelaire would have the curious believe that the finest trick the Devil ever performed was in persuading the world that he did not exist. Baudelaire was mistaken. There was no persuasion. — John Zande

Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool? — Kohta Hirano

In the collective psyche it is being understood ... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion. — Tara Brach

I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line. — Bob Newhart

Ever been in Jail?
No. But I'm often alone. — Tadeusz Konwicki

I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste. — Gwynne Shotwell

I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I'm addicted to - I'm a master at "Angry Birds." — Salman Rushdie

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet. — Bill Veeck

I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards for years. We've been exploring the world of vampires for years. Clearly the public - I mean, I feel like all of this was ushered in by 'Harry Potter' - in my own fannish beliefs. — Ginnifer Goodwin

It is a smokescreen if someone believes that they can make change without identifying the root causes which influence social disorder. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

The picture of helpless indolence she calls herself
sublimely helpless and impotent
I had done living I thought
Was ever life so like death before? My face was so close against the tombstones,
that there seemed no room for tears. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It's all about them. They have mastered the Star Wars or Star Trek universes or whatever, but their objects of veneration are useful mainly as a backdrop to their own devotion. Anyone who would camp out in a tent on the sidewalk for weeks in order to be first in line for a movie is more into camping on the sidewalk than movies. Extreme fandom may serve as a security blanket for the socially inept, who use its extreme structure as a substitute for social skills. If you are Luke Skywalker and she is Princess Leia, you already know what to say to each other, which is so much safer than having to ad lib it. Your fannish obsession is your beard. If you know absolutely all the trivia about your cubbyhole of pop culture, it saves you from having to know anything about anything else. That's why it's excruciatingly boring to talk to such people: They're always asking you questions they know the answer to. — Roger Ebert