Shaiman Composer Quotes & Sayings

Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment. — Madeleine M. Kunin

The presumption of innocent until proven guilty has been overshadowed by the presumption of guilty until proven wealthy — Frank Vetro

In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios. — Griffin Dunne

We must be constantly aware of our responsibility in the Communion of Saints, without giving our honored predecessors the final say or making them an "alternatvie source," independent of scripture itself. When they speak with one voice, we should listen very carefully. They may be wrong. They sometimes are. But we ignore them at our peril. — N. T. Wright

Evil became invisible when it was everywhere. Like air, everyone forgot it was there until it was blowing hard enough to knock off their hat or muss up their hair. — Sean DeLauder

After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing between flashes of intense perception ... Rigidly denying himself the amusement of philosophy, which consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems, and liked to wander past them in a courteous temper, even bowing to them distantly as though recognizing their existence, while doubting their respectibility. — Henry Adams

The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned. — Frederick Lenz

There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving. — Lou Rawls

They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work. — Philip Yancey

Mothers were sacred. Mothers were not expected to be pretty. — Bernard Cornwell

[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal — Megan Hilty

Failure is the test of greatness. — Herman Melville

I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later. — Sammy Hagar