Maltz Museum Quotes & Sayings

You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts. — Howard Thurston

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got. — Andrew Young

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do. — Gus Van Sant

Salt! Salt! And grease! Greee-suh!"Ax — Katherine Applegate

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head. — Gwendolyn Brooks

Now I know what a dulcimer is supposed to sound like. — Jake Shimabukuro

Just find your way, like a river settling into its bed, and the sigh of the wind over a lake, light but restful ... content with the joy in the arc of an arm throwing a ball for a dog to fetch, the ease of the grassy slope stretching away, birds in the trees singing sweet high notes, flowers growing close in the ditch. — Jay Woodman

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz. — Edward Burnett Tylor

On Juan Rulfo:
His published writings add up to no more than 300 pages, but they are just as many, and I believe just as enduring, as those that we know of Sophocles. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It didn't escape Blue that his slightly accented voice was as nice as his looks. It was all Henrietta sunset: hot front-porch swings and cold iced-tea glasses, cicadas louder than your thoughts. — Maggie Stiefvater

It had very punctual prophets. You could set your calendar by them, if you had one big enough. — Terry Pratchett

When I was like 12 or 13,Muhammad Ali gave me a pair of his trunks that were white satin with gold stripes. They were full of blood, and my mother threw them away. I think it's the first time I ever cursed at my mother. — Mickey Rourke

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it. — Rian Johnson