Kneale Quotes & Sayings

I love the man that smiles at trouble: that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. — Thomas Paine

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine. — Gloria Steinem

My opponents' first argument was that the rocks of the earth--which are generally agreed to have once been in a hot and melted state--would have required far longer to lose their heat than the Scriptures described. My reply was that the earth had indeed cooled at great speed, being made possible by a process I termed Divine Refrigeration. — Matthew Kneale

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. — Jim Rohn

I began my ministry with some zeal, endeavouring to improve the lives of my flock by launching a little campaign to have the alehouse open only three days in the week instead of seven, and offering--as a nobler recompense--two extra church services. Sadly this little initiative was answered, in certain quarters, with something like hostility. — Matthew Kneale

Mama said there was always a catastrophe coming. Someone's world was always coming to an end. It wasn't our worry to change every ending, only the endings we could — Rob Thurman

I never had a career. Only work. — Nigel Kneale

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s. — Nigel Kneale

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it. — Nigel Kneale

Corporations found out that without a healthy culture, people are not natural Marxists but natural couch potatoes. With no extended family, no effective church, and no healthy local community to support their lives, people don't form revolutionary cells: they buy a case of beer or renew their Xanax prescription and spend their non-working hours watching NFL games and the Lifetime network and various types of pornography. — Gene Callahan

Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together. — Taylor Lautner

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives. — Lois Lowry

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is. — Nigel Kneale

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about. — Nigel Kneale

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite. — Nigel Kneale

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five. — Nigel Kneale

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention. — Nigel Kneale

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object. — Pierre De Coubertin

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance? — Nigel Kneale

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway. — Nigel Kneale

Sometimes you just gotta let sh-t go and say 'to hell with it' and move on. — Eminem

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me. — Nigel Kneale

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either. — Nigel Kneale

Fruits each in its season, are the cheapest, most elegant and wholesome dessert you can offer your family or friends, at luncheon or tea. Pastry and plum-pudding should be prohibited by law, from the beginning of June until the end of September. — Mary Virginia Terhune

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write. — Nigel Kneale

English Passengers, a first novel by Matthew Kneale, relates what follows when a group of Englishmen arrive in mid-nineteenth-century Tasmania with different purposes: to find the Garden of Eden, to prove the natives are less intelligent than the British, and to escape from British law. Kneale also describes the tragic life of a young Aboriginal whose experiences are shaped by the arrival of the British. — Nancy Pearl

Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium. — Nigel Kneale

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan. — Nigel Kneale

Only by forgetting this primitive world of metaphor can one live with any repose, security, and consistency: only by means of the petrification and coagulation of a mass of images which originally streamed from the primal faculty of human imagination like a fiery liquid, only in the invincible faith that this sun, this window, this table is a truth in itself, in short, only by forgetting that he himself is an artistically creating subject, does man live with any repose, security, and consistency. If but for an instant he could escape from the prison walls of this faith, his "self consciousness" would be immediately destroyed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom. — Nigel Kneale

I'd never seen any television before I started. — Nigel Kneale

I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. — Shannon L. Alder

I look up to a strong woman; maybe that's why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic. — Taylor Kinney

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories. — Nigel Kneale