Schreyer Quotes & Sayings

The question is - did Richard Attenborough have a right to make 'Gandhi?' And did Danny Boyle have a right to make 'Slumdog Millionaire?' Quite honestly, if they didn't have the right to make these films, I had no right to make 'Elizabeth.' — Shekhar Kapur

As I always say, 'Not always right, but never in doubt.' — William Schreyer

That's good advice for any young person to remember who aspires to leadership in corporate or public life. Develop a thick skin when it comes to the press. Remember you're never as bad-or as good-as the press says you are. — William Schreyer

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap. — Olivia Colman

Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein ... — Thomm Quackenbush

Then as we passed down this Passage we were knocked against certain Women of the Town, who gave us Eye-language, since there were many Corners and Closets in Bedlam where they would stop and wait for Custom: indeed it was known as a sure Market for Lechers and Loiterers, for tho' they came in Single they went out by Pairs. This is a Showing-room for Whores, I said.
And what better place for Lust, Sir Chris. replied, than among those whose Wits have fled? — Peter Ackroyd

The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it. — William Schreyer

I don't pick stuff up I knock stuff down! — Noel Fielding

In 711 Muslim armies went north into Spain, ultimately occupying it and crossing the Pyrenees into France. In 732 Charles Martel, in a defining battle, defeated the Muslim armies, forcing them back behind the mountains and confining them to the Iberian Peninsula. Had Martel lost that battle, Europe would have been a very different place. — George Friedman

CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it. — Jeffrey Zeldman

How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania. — William Schreyer

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.' — William Safire

I have no regrets about anything that I've ever done, about whom I've been involved with, so forth and so on. — William Schreyer

But flowers feed our soul in a different way. They remind us of a God who creates beautiful things and takes notice of the tiniest detail — Tricia Goyer

I don't know. Being me wasn't working so I thought I'd let Lance make a new me so I could be popular. — Casia Schreyer

We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies. — Judith Viorst

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone? — Marina Tsvetaeva

Once we were driving in the midwest and we pulled into a McDonald's. Someone came up to me and asked me why I have Feynman diagrams all over my van. I replied, "Because I am Feynman!" The young man went, "Ahhhhh!" — Richard P. Feynman

The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and ethically mandatory. The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved only because they once served the fitness of our genes. They will be replaced by a different sort of neural architecture. States of sublime well-being are destined to become the genetically pre-programmed norm of mental health. The world's last aversive experience will be a precisely dateable event. — David Pearce

We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind. — Frederick Lenz