Filoli Membership Quotes & Sayings

You want the audience to get your movie, and you want the audience to like it. It's as simple as that. If they don't understand what you're trying to say, you've failed. Of course, you can't get 100 percent of the crowd to understand the movie, but you know when you've reached the people you want to reach. — Judd Apatow

Failure, failure is so important, it doesn't get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time. — J.K. Rowling

If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. — Eddie Izzard

It's easy now - it's middle-aged lady, nobody's looking, nobody notices. I go without lipstick if I feel like it, and I always wear my comfy clothes. It's a life with fewer distractions, but should something beautiful show up, a middle-aged woman is free to stare. — Abigail Thomas

For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches. — Thomas Browne

There are people that say they will do better but they never do better. They have no power in them to do better until they come to Christ. — Billy Graham

Flowers are an education in a vase. — Robert Genn

Ouch. I suppose I should now apologize for my absence. I did not do it to be cruel, my dear. I had to support my brother and all that." "I thought as much. You were always close to my family so I assumed your absence was in support of your brother." "Well, you couldn't blame the boy. You were clearly driving him on the path to Bedlam," he said with a grin. She took pride in that. She really shouldn't, but she did. "He wasn't such an angel if I recall," she pointed out just as the waltz began. — R.L. Mathewson

I might not have been the brightest bulb in the box, but I lasted longer and provided more light in the long run. — Patricia H. Graham

My distant past, that is. The last time we were together he said he'd leave me to figure things out in my own time, and a lot of that sort of time has passed. — Kristina Wright

Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing guitar. He was playing some old school rock and roll, and we got together and thought, 'Hey, let's take this on the road.' — Christian Kane

Father Stalin, look at this Collective farming is just bliss The hut's in ruins, the barn's all sagged All the horses broken nags And on the hut a hammer and sickle And in the hut death and famine No cows left, no pigs at all Just your picture on the wall — Timothy Snyder

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. — Socrates

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness. — Rebecca West