Lobservateur Quotes & Sayings

Instead of spending money, I earned it. — P.T. Barnum

If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies. — Scott Weiland

If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed. — Hugh MacLeod

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. — David Hilbert

There is the story in every man's heart of human progress. I believe every one of us knows that his major job on Earth is to make some contributions, no matter how small, to this inexorable movement of human progress. — King Vidor

My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure. — Steve Martin

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me. — Jamaica Kincaid

With one image he would make that beauty explode into me. — Marcel Proust

Theia: "We're very high up here, aren't we?"
Haden: "Well, you certainly are. Theia, I need you to wake up."
Theia: "Did you know that I have never seen a penis?"
He laughed again. "When you wake up, you are going to hate yourself. — Gwen Hayes

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side. — John McCarthy

Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to perfect the movie that you have and make it the best version of what you've shot, regardless of what the intent may have been. — Joe Dante

God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh. — Oswald Chambers