Melancholly Quotes & Sayings

I then supped with my companions, with whom I was soon after to part for ever - always a most melancholly, death-like idea - a sort of separation of soul; for all the regret which follows those from whom fate separates us, seems to be something torn from ourselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft

I've cut myself out ... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can. — Jon Favreau

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard. — George Lucas

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do. — Maurice Sendak

I love the smell of the universe in the morning. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It's almost obscene when you see people who haven't matured, who haven't changed, who don't have the weight of years on them. So that's interesting to me - to think about playing him into the future, anew. — David Duchovny

On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back. — Gore Verbinski

The only thing wrong with being gay is how some people treat you when they find out. — Robin Reardon

I have a confession to make.
I hate voir dire.
I despise prying into other people's lives because I wouldn't want them prying into mine. — Paul Levine

My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this thing called the Eisteddfod where people compete in singing and acting and dancing and oratory all sorts of things. From a very young age, it's been a part of my upbringing. — Iwan Rheon

Kodak has always represented innovation that is approachable while delivering the craft of filmmaking. — Yves Behar

When you travel you realize how small you are. You need to be humble. You can't be a big, brash American. You think you have problems. You leave the States and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you. They have nothing to eat, they have no water, they have no shelter, they have a terrible government. So you realize we complain about the government, we complain about food, whatever it is, and go somewhere else and you think, "Now I realize," you say, "Why people want to come to America." — Paul Theroux

Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case. — Pythagoras

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. — Frederick W. Taylor

The Norse God of Thunder looked at her awkwardly. He had to remove his great horned helmet because it was banging against the ceiling and leaving scratch marks in the plaster. — Douglas Adams