On Mad Inventors Quotes & Sayings

No one goes anywhere alone, least of all into exile - not even those who arrive physically alone, unaccompanied by family, spouse, children, parents, or siblings. No one leaves his or her world without having been transfixed by its roots, or with a vacuum for a soul. We carry with us the memory of many fabrics, a self soaked in our history, our culture; a memory, sometimes scattered, sometimes sharp and clear, of the streets of our childhood, of our adolescence; the reminiscence of something distant that suddenly stands out before us, in us, a shy gesture, an open hand, a smile lost in a time of misunderstanding, a sentence, a simple sentence possibly now forgotten by the one who had said it. — Paulo Freire

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. — David Byrne

Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show. — Danny Masterson

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths. — Umberto Eco

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon. — James Fenton

There is also the issue of many people who have been consciously invalidated by their parents or others in authority. This would be when someone is constantly berated for being overweight, not smart enough, not athletic enough, not tall enough, not pretty enough, not helpful enough, not thoughtful enough, not, not, not...This invalidation comes from others, but as we grow into adulthood those voices from the past become our voices in our heads, as we continue to invalidate ourselves. This could just result in low self-esteem, or it could lead to the unconscious seeking of others to validate us. — Richard L. Travis

I'm only afraid of getting fat. — Stephanie Grant

All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy. — Trevor Baylis

Servants don't know a good master till they have served a worse. — Aesop

I think most actors feel an obligation to do right by the people they're playing. — Kyle MacLachlan

So what do you desire to do? What do you really want to do as a person? You need to stop and document that; write it down; make a plan; and then God says, 'I'll direct your steps.' — Myles Munroe