Fernie Quotes & Sayings

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art. — Sally Mann

Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry is probably as close as I would get to religious feeling. I think poetry makes the world stand still. — Carol Muske-Dukes

The definitive study of the herd instincts of astronomers has yet to be written, Fernie said, but there are times when we resemble nothing so much as a herd of antelope, heads down in tight formation, thundering with firm determination in a particular direction across the plain. At a given signal from the leader we whirl about, and, with equally firm determination, thunder off in quite a different direction, still in tight parallel formation.
(quoting an observation made by astronomer J. Donal Fernie) — Michael Brooks

I've never considered myself to be working for a living; I've enjoyed myself for a living instead. — John Mills

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies - as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers. — Ben Hecht

Why? he asked, as if he really didn't know. Maybe he didn't. It wasn't the first time he gave evidence of being truly ignorant of the real conditions under which we (women) lived. — Margaret Atwood

I'm not unsympathetic. But do you like me? Because this being gay business doesn't mean you can just throw yourself at any guy and it'll be fine because he's not a girl. There are still people you like and people you don't. — Cassandra Clare

We Americans are free to give our opinions and make our voices heard. We work in a free enterprise economy that, for over 200 years, has lifted countless individuals above the circumstances of their birth to achieve their God-given potential. We have been an exceptional country because, here, people are free to practice their faiths and worship God. — Marco Rubio

Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career. — Julie Andrews

Frost? What is frost' she demanded in glorious arrogance. — Joanne Valiukas

She's not pretty. Little, funny Fernie. She's not pretty. Poor Fernie. — Amy Harmon

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter. — Blake Lively

As has been long observed, men are people, but women are women. — Cordelia Fine