Popliteal Quotes & Sayings

In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack for quality writing. It's just that quality writing commonly has to be sacrificed in order to propel a film into production. A studio needs a star and a director to make a film, so those are the folk who'll define the content. If they don't have the same creative sensibilities, then the content will change. — Terry Rossio

Maybe the meaning was in how we heard the sound, but did nothing about it until it was so loud we had no choice. — Cheryl Strayed

Anyone playing with you is going to change where your direction is. — Charlie Hunter

Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost. — Elliott Smith

In which of these respects the public is more stubborn is an empirical question to be judged from the factual evidence, not something that can be determined by reason alone. — Milton Friedman

As a matter of interest," he said, — Arthur C. Clarke

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction. — Noam Chomsky

The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality. — Bill Maher

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it. — Gary Johnson

I've always been a huge fan of matching sets and vibrant prints. — Mia Moretti

Love is action.
It's clear, it's kind, it's effortless, and it's irresistible. — Byron Katie

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I don't know why Nightingale was so surprised - I barely knew four and a half spells and you couldn't have got me to give it up, and that's despite close brushes with death by vampire, hanging, malignant spirit, riot, tigerman, and the ever-present risk of overdoing the magic and getting a brain aneurysm. — Ben Aaronovitch