Forney Quotes & Sayings

Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself. — John Steinbeck

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For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as profound, and in my work for years I've really tried to deal with subjects that are substantial, not just fluffy, but presented in a more playful, approachable kind of way. — Ellen Forney

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space. — Herman Melville

I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of. — Ellen Forney

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career. — Antonio Banderas

I find that stability is good for my creativity. — Ellen Forney

I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately. — Sabrina Lloyd

'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying. — Ellen Forney

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell

Sometimes it seems like "pain" is too obvious a place to turn for inspiration. Pain isn't always deep, anyway. Sometimes it's awful and that's it. Or boring. Surely other things can be as profound as pain. — Ellen Forney

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders. — Ellen Forney

The results will be very good. — Jacob Zuma

I mean, Dad was one of these people who simply could not lose, you know? He could not stand it when a kid was beating him. He would go crazy when the child came to that moment, which, you know, you have to come to - I mean, Dad played Old Maids like he played football. He just simply had to win every single thing every single time. — Terry Gross

Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work. — Jilly Cooper

What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see. — Ellen Langer

I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium. — Ellen Forney

Books are much better companions to me than people. — Rakesh Satyal

Come on, Forney.'
Novalee, it's a parasite.'
But it's a tradition.'
It's a parasite! And you expect people to stand under it and kiss?'
Yes! it's what people do with mistletoe. — Billie Letts

Forney in 'Where the Heart Is' has more fans than any other character I've played. — James Frain

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already. — Seneca The Younger

A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery. — Ellen Forney

I let Wally go yesterday," Mr. Forney said. "I just want you to know that." "You fired him?" "Of course. Fraternizing with hotel guests is cause for dismissal." "But - " "We have high standards for the hotel, Miss Spooner. That includes employees." "Yeah," I said. "I've seen your high standards up close, Mr. Forney. I think you like rolling in your stinky high standards. Especially when you can kick a couple of guests out of the hotel because they have the wrong last name." He — Judy Blundell

At the heart of science is accepting only that truth which can be proven. At the heart of faith is define Truth, at its core, as being unprovable. — Brandon Sanderson

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand. — Ellen Forney

All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men. — Billy Connolly