Harryhausen Films Quotes & Sayings

I suspect it was ... the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest; and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security, its distrust of the unknown and its elevation of abstract collective values has repressed the heroic impulse to a degree that may produce the most dangerous consequences. — Laurens Van Der Post

I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that's what made me interested in animation: His work. — Tim Burton

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society. — Max Frisch

So our films had a lot more to them than entertainment value, and I'm glad that a lot of people recognize that now. People realize now the value of them as educational. — Ray Harryhausen

Jane Austen is thus a mistress of much deeper emotion than appears upon the surface. She stimulates us to supply what is not there. What she offers is, apparently, a trifle, yet is composed of something that expands in the reader's mind and endows with the most enduring form of life scenes which are outwardly trivial. Always the stress is laid upon character... The turns and twists of the dialogue keep us on the tenterhooks of suspense. Our attention is half upon the present moment, half upon the future...Here, indeed, in this unfinished and in the main inferior story, are all the elements of Jane Austen's greatness. — Virginia Woolf

Go looking for the best in people and you'll be amazed at how much talent, ingenuity, empathy and good you will find. — Bob Burg

You know, if you're trying to mark your territory, you could've just peed on me before I came over here and saved us both a lot of time! — Julie James

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill. — Chelsea Clinton

Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' ... Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth. — Ilana Mercer

The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant. — Stephen Cohen

So rather than risk saying the wrong thing, I said nothing. — Patrick Rothfuss

Watching Ray Harryhausen's films growing up was a pure joy. He brought legends to life and he became a legend himself. And I am sure that future generations of animators will continue to look to him for inspiration. — Joe Letteri

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer. — Lester Maddox

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. — Chris Martin

I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees. — Stephen Hawking