Pratt Institute Quotes & Sayings

I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best. — Jack Kirby

I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now. — Ivan Reitman

A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death. — Rachel Kushner

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan. — Claire Cook

The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness. — Jim Morrison

Fear is an effective factor in altering behavior ... — Jerry Vlasak

That Woman is in love with her own grief. — Gabrielle Zevin

Shit, the fun's over. The bad guys called the cops." -Micah — Kampar

As de Saussure said, risk-taking brings with it its own reward: it keeps a "continual agitation alive" in the heart. Hope, fear. Hope, fear - this is the fundamental rhythm of mountaineering. Life, it frequently seems in the mountains, is more intensely lived the closer one gets to its extinction: we never feel so alive as when we have nearly died. — Robert Macfarlane

The first law of reason is that what exists, exists; what is, is, and that from this ineducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built ... that is the foundation from which life is embraced ... thinking is a choice ... wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discover them ... reason is our only way of grasping reality
it's our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking
to reject reason
but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see ... Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting reason one embraces death. — Terry Goodkind

Fate changes when you change your clothes. — Amy Tan

DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done. — Arthur Kornberg

I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career. — Robert Urich

He just f****d my name right in front of me. — Katy Evans