Shoeblack Quotes & Sayings

Too much to know is to know naught but fame. — William Shakespeare

Sometimes people that are very good at improvisation in life, meaning like stage improvisation, aren't good in films because you have to ultimately take a scene where it needs to go. It's not about just saying something that's funny. You can say something funny but if it's not on story or driving the scene to its end it's really not very helpful at all. — Vince Vaughn

I saw a sign that said, 'Watch for children.' I was like, 'That sounds like a fair trade - especially if they're crappy kids.' — Demetri Martin

A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In this case, instead of thinking "I want success," think "I have success." — Neale Donald Walsch

Mrs. Maddox?"
I smiled. "Yes?"
"Nothing. I just wanted to call you
that."
"Good. I kind of like it. — Jamie McGuire

Nope, there wasn't any getting out of this. Real first name meant business. — Mindee Arnett

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation. — Samuel Johnson

Step 17: Get used to giving more than you get.
A natural transition, as we go from being kids to adults, is to go from being self-oriented to other-oriented. When we're little, all this love flows to us, and none is expected back. That ratio has now changed, and if you don't acknowledge it, you will not be a pleasant person to be around. — Kelly Williams Brown

Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere. — James Wolcott

She makes her little house to shine, she thought. — Marian Engel

When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and allow what's going to happen to happen without too much preconception. — John Hawkes

I don't really remember what computer screens looked like, — Emily St. John Mandel

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that. — Aaron Koblin