Melter Tinkers Quotes & Sayings

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep. — Mahatma Gandhi

How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting. — Noah Baumbach

What these [personality] tests tell employers about potential employees is hard to imagine since the 'right' answer should be obvious to anyone who has ever encountered the principle of hierarchy and subordination. Do I work well with others? You bet, but never to the point where I would hesitate to inform on them for the slightest infraction. Am I capable of independent decision making? Oh yes, but I know better than to let this capacity interfere with a slavish obedience to orders ... The real function of these tests, I decide, is to convey information not to the employer but to the potential employee, and the information being conveyed is always: You will have no secrets from us. We don't just want your muscles and that portion of your brain that is directly connected to them; we want your innermost self. — Barbara Ehrenreich

I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie? — Jake Gyllenhaal

I may like L.A., but I want to know when the seasons are. — Gary Coleman

That life has no clear purpose or meaning is the best possible news for artists. — Marty Rubin

I need a guy who's confident and is secure in himself, because we're always apart. — AnnaLynne McCord

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening. — Frank Herbert

Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine. — Sara Genn

I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there! — Tammy Blanchard

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance. — David Thewlis

Shockingly, too many of our children don't read to grade level. Studies show that if a child does not read to grade level by third grade, that child is likely to drop out of school. I believe the love of reading begins at home. We should do all we can to make sure that our children and grandchildren stay in school and graduate. Reading to grade level is an important foundation. — Soraya Diase Coffelt

Even if this little account of mine, this little chronicle seems to disclose secrets that might undermine the nightmarish order of things, it does nothing but support and promulgate that order. Nothing can resist or betray this nightmare because nothing exists that might do anything, that might be anything that could realize a success in that way. The very idea of such a thing is only nonsense and dreams. — Thomas Ligotti

Now this greatest tent staled out hot raw breaths of earth, confetti that was ancient when the canals of Venice were not yet staked, and wafts of pink cotton candy like tired feather boas. In rushing downfalls, the tent shed skin; grieved, soughed as flesh fell away until at last the tall museum timbers at the spine of the discarded monster dropped with three canon roars. — Ray Bradbury

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida. — Vincent Bugliosi