Mcmullen Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide. — Jeremy Thomas

You can pack a bag and take a plane somewhere, anywhere, and when you get there and open the bag - lying right on top will be whatever you're running away from. The very first thing you'll have to unpack ... — Mary McMullen

There are those who don't understand the nobility of horror fiction. 'Isn't there enough horror in the world?' they ask. For all other forms of literature, the value of human life is optional. For horror fiction, it's absolutely necessary. If we don't value the life of the threatened protagonist, we can't be scared. And through our fear, we better understand the individual fears and values of our species across the world. — E.C. McMullen Jr.

Their hearts began to swell with the pity that one feels for a fellow being who has lost both his way and his sense of purpose. — Caryl Phillips

But ... the working scientist ... is not consciously following any prescribed course of action, but feels complete freedom to utilize any method or device whatever which in the particular situation before him seems likely to yield the correct answer ... No one standing on the outside can predict what the individual scientist will do or what method he will follow. — Percy Williams Bridgman

McMullen came out of Japan racked by nightmares and so nervous that he was barely able to speak cogently. When he told his story to his family, his father accused him of lying and forbade him to speak of the war. Shattered and deeply depressed, McMullen couldn't eat, and his weight plunged back down to ninety pounds. He went to a veterans' hospital, but the doctors simply gave him B12 shots. — Laura Hillenbrand

When I was 25 years old and had no money - and didn't know how to make movies and had no experience - I was able to get $25,000 together, and that film was 'The Brothers McMullen.' — Edward Burns

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world. — Benjamin Disraeli

That darkest of syllables, death. — Mary McMullen

It requires a great deal more generosity to take than to give. — Mary McMullen

Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away. — Mary McMullen

Reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists; what is, is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality - it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see. — Terry Goodkind

People tend to believe accusations more than denials. — Mary McMullen

A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime. — Connie Britton

There is no oneness in the forest unless it is planted as such. — Celestine McMullen Allen

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Power and beauty come from a very deep place. — Brooke Burke

I've gotten to the place where I find life too short for if-only. — Mary McMullen

If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry.
"That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya — George R R Martin

I can't play a slave. — Dorothy Dandridge

If the 70's is the new black......well The Fearless Five through Constellation J is the sound track to the new black! — David J. McMullen

I barely knew Sebastian. You knew him enough to suck face. — Kelly Keaton

'Brothers McMullen' would not be picked up for theatrical distribution now. — Edward Burns

And thanks to Christina McMullen, who has taught me that common sense and intelligence need not have any correlation whatsoever. — Lois Greiman

If I only could communicate in sign language, I couldn't visit other deaf people overseas because I'd be worried I couldn't understand their accents. — David McMullen-Sullivan

No goal is impossible. Some things simply take more effort, more time, and more improvising that others. — T.C. McMullen

Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen — Lois Greiman

Love is recognition, perhaps the highest form of it. You. — Mary McMullen

All of Dwayne's books are like a game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except the bacon is actually bacon on a Happy Clown Burger sandwich. — Christina McMullen

Guns were the symbols of judgment and power, so that those who were expected to exercise power and judgment had to wear them and be proficient in their use. — Sean McMullen

Yeah, I am in love. I'm definitely in love. She picked me up in a bar, actually. She walked by and just looked at me and smiled and I went 'Hey' and she goes, 'Hey'. I was just like, 'Oh my God', she took my breath away. — Darren McMullen

In fact, I don't understand religion at all and as far as I can see the only thing it does is hasten the slaughter of people who generally seem to be minding their own business. — Beth McMullen

But how to be present to another? Our hearts are so hard. We are so insensitive to the suffering of others. We must pray the Holy Spirit to change our hearts of stone into hearts of flesh so that we may give life, for love is giving of life and liberty. By our confidence in another we can bring forth new aspirations and a taste for life in him. We can help the miserable person to live, to progress and to grow. And he will only begin to want to live when he has been told by our gestures, words, the tone of our voice, our look, our whole being that it is important that he live. — Jean Vanier

The Tao principle is what happens of itself. — Laozi

If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock. — Tim Cook

Consideration touches more deeply and longer than passion. — James Crumley

And at no point did making 'Brothers McMullen' feel like work or hardship. It was really just a matter of 11 days of fun over the course of 8 months. — Edward Burns

Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right. — Mary McMullen

Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself. — David McMullen-Sullivan

In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary. — Louisa May Alcott