Proxmire Award Quotes & Sayings

Every second counts. Live in this moment. This is life. This is what matters. — Claire Contreras

It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything. — Darnell Lamont Walker

You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it. — M.I.A.

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh. — Fede Alvarez

For this is England where a man's neighbours will never suffer him to live entirely bereft of society, let him be as dry and sour-faced as he may. — Susanna Clarke

If you can't test it, it's not theorics
it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy. — Neal Stephenson

I'm worried about the future of computer operating systems, as they all seem to be sliding towards a more controlled experience, taking away much of what makes PC games so much fun. — Markus Persson

I'm not happy if other people aren't enjoying themselves, so I try to lighten the mood as much as I can. — Tom Weston-Jones

My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always. — Frederick Lenz

I knew more happiness and love than I'd ever experienced in my life, and now understood how precious it was to have that love. — Raine Miller

There's action only if there is danger. — Howard Hawks

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will. — Francois Rabelais

This is the way the wheel turns, coming at last to full circle, with wild as well as tame at he crib; lion and turtle-dove together an barnyard beasts lying down with the fox. For wild and tame are but two hlaves and here, where all begins and ends, everything must be whole.
And always, among the sleepers, there must be somebody waking - somewhere, someone, waking and watchful. Or what would happen to the world..? — P.L. Travers

I was on the street. This guy waved to me, and he came up to me and said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' And I said, 'I am. — Demetri Martin

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience. — Kenneth L. Pike