Forbidden Planet 1956 Quotes & Sayings

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... Just a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor. — Nikola Tesla

One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one. — Daniel Goldstein

A fierce possessiveness gripped him, a need to brand her, to make her his, now and forever. And he knew it was madness. — Shelly Thacker

Everyone's running from something. — Peter Watts

He's not your type."
Peabody's face clouded exactly as it had when Eve had rejected the perfume. "How come - I like looking at his type."
"Sure, but try to have a conversation with him." Eve dipped her hands in her pockets and rocked back on her heels. "Guy's in love with himself and figures every woman who gets a load of him has to go moony eyed - just like you're doing. He'd bore you to death in ten minutes because all he'd talk about is himself - how he looks, what he does, what he likes. You'd just be his latest accessory."
Peabody considered, watching as the gold-tipped Adonis posed at the check-in counter. "Okay, so we won't bother to talk. We'll just have sex."
"He'd be a lousy lay - wouldn't give a damn if you got off or not."
"I'm getting off just looking at him." But she sighed when he took out a small silver-backed mirror and examined his face with obvious delight. "It's times like this I hate it when you're right. — J.D. Robb

Change happens slowly. And it only happens one person at a time, one day at a time. — Katie Kacvinsky

In my personal life I'm very conservative. I've been married to the same person for nearly 50 years, I'm scrupulous about paying bills, avoiding debt. I'm very careful. But as an actor I'm pretty reckless. I've done a lot of things that, when I see myself on screen, I have to shut my eyes. And I've made a whole bunch of movies that nobody sees, including me. — Christopher Walken

It's not all about mountaintops. Mostly it's about training so that you'll know the mountaintop for what it is when you get there. — Lauren F. Winner

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it, — Peter Zumthor

A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick. — Henry Adams

My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time. — Parminder Nagra

They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems. — Robert Reischauer

...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history. — Max Weber

The danger is that being pushed towards early specialisation can leave children believing that they have only one way to succeed ... Prodigies who don't make it will have worked insanely hard on something that can longer sustain them, after having neglected skills needed to pursue any other kind of life. — Andrew Solomon