Kempthorne Analytics Quotes & Sayings

I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess. — David O. Russell

You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour. — Benjamin Franklin

He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days. — Horace

The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given. — Vin Scully

I should have known that at the root of any mystery that's all you find: people doing unspeakable harm to other people. What else on this earth is there to hide? — Nick Dybek

The 'destiny that eyes us from the future' makes us neglect our duties to those close to us. Third-Worldism stressed the crimes of colonialism in order to avoid speaking about the crimes of the decolonized; ecologists, wholly absorbed in their science-fiction ethics, care more about our possible misdeeds than about present injustices. — Pascal Bruckner

If you're going to do something, DO IT.
If you want something, GET IT.
Don't just wish for it!
--- Mary Lynn H. Plaisance — Mary Lynn Plaisance

You either believe what you think or
you question it. There's no other choice. — Byron Katie

Shutting down is denial. When you deny the past, you will repeat it. — Patricia Cornwell

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work. — James Purdy

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line. — Don Bluth

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen. — Jamie Redknapp

No one ever grows up. They may look grown-up, but it's just the clay of time. Men and women are still children deep in their hearts. Mrs. Neville — Robert McCammon

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation ... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World. — Eleanor Roosevelt