Night Eyes 1990 Quotes & Sayings

I am interested in a hundred things, but only slightly. — Mason Cooley

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good! — Slavoj Zizek

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas ... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture. — Mark Rothko

I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it. — Charles Kettering

I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness. — Grover Cleveland

Education is one of the main ways that communities pass on their values and traditions from one generation to the next. — Ken Robinson

Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many different genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary. He was also an outspoken socialist. His later works become increasingly political and didactic, and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Wells, along with Hugo Gernsback and Jules Verne, is sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction". Source: Wikipedia — H.G.Wells

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable. — Mark Strickson

We wanted a name that people would remember and get pissed off about. Nothing too deep, believe me. — Joe King

I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return ticket to her youth. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture. — George Lucas

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world. — David K. E. Bruce

I repeat to you-my own view is, is that if a State-if people decide to-what they do in the privacy of their house, consenting adults should be able to do. This is America. It's a free society, but it doesn't mean we have to redefine traditional marriage. — George W. Bush

It's the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much. — Pat Conroy

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky. — Beryl Bainbridge