Galistener Quotes & Sayings

Wells is teaching us to think. Burroughs and his lesser imitators are teaching us not to think. Of course, Burroughs is teaching us to wonder. The sense of wonder is in essence a religious state, blanketing out criticism. Wells was always a critic, even in his most wondrous and romantic tales.

And there, I believe, the two poles of modern fantasy stand defined. At one pole wait Wells and his honorable predecessors such as Swift; at the other, Burroughs and the commercial producers, such as Otis Adelbart Kline, and the weirdies, and horror merchants such as H.P. Lovecraft, and so all the way past Tolkien to today's non-stop fantasy worlders. Mary Shelley stands somewhere at the equator of this metaphor. — Brian W. Aldiss

Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things. — Dick Butkus

The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration. — Debbie Allen

That's why you aren't hearing from anyone out there. That's why the great silence persists. There are many other living intelligences out there, no doubt, but they can't leave their home planets any more than we can, because life is a planetary expression, and can only survive on its home planet." "But — Kim Stanley Robinson

Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, ... Look at what you have now. — Barbara Delinsky

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it. — Benjamin Franklin

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts. — Ridley Scott

In any case, the goal is the same: to connect. — Nicolas Billon

An olive, with a pit ... — Victor Feguer

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none. — Marcus Aurelius

Although both men were full of resolve, the defender could not keep his doubts out of his mind, while the attacker refused to entertain any doubts. (Rommel vs. Eisenhower) — Stephen E. Ambrose

I always like to think on a problem before reading about it. — Jean Piaget

We are at a turning point; the exploitation has now reached a pitch where the disenfranchised and exploited can look to a culpable minority with vengeful eyes. This minority, though, cannot be defined by the color of their skin but by the color of their god. Green. — Russell Brand

Should we split up, or this a horror movie?"
"Scream if something eats you," Gansey said. — Maggie Stiefvater

I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it. — John Mellencamp