Soehner Technology Quotes & Sayings

I knew Rome was burning, but I had just enough water to scrub the floors, so I did what I could. — Barbara Kingsolver

I have seen life's purpose, and now it is my own. — Kamahl

A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars. — Tim O'Brien

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults. — John Lasseter

I'm not what you would call a 'nice person'. I tolerate people on the best of days. — Belle Aurora

Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he flattered only to ruin; and however he might occasionally bind himself by oaths and treaties, his conscience, obsequious to his interest, always released him from the inconvenient obligation. — Edward Gibbon

Just make sure the unknown is a place you the writer understand. If you're going to write, you have to love. ... You have to fall on your face, swim against the tide, make terrible mistakes, and pay the price; you have to tune in, turn on, drop out, drop back in, fight, cry, lose, win. ... Above all, don't get too comfortable. Go out there and get your heart broken. You won't be able to write until you do. — Holly Peterson

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. — Confucius

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important. — Oswald Chambers

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor. — Terrence Howard

You can only take me so low. After that it just doesn't hurt anymore. Your words and blows lose meaning and effect. You lose control of the situation. I can withstand any beating you can administer effortlessly but would die from receiving. How? I have waited. I have paid. I have scarred myself crawling through the guts of the machine, seeing how it works. — Henry Rollins

Size doesn't matter. It's all about the heart. — Bob Sanders

How many of you have had a teacher at any level of your education who made you more excited to be alive, prouder to be alive, than you had previously believed possible? Hold up your hands, please. Now take down your hands and say the name of that teacher to someone else and tell them what that teacher did for you. All done? If this isn't nice, what is? — Kurt Vonnegut

When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty. — Jon Stewart

Well, I myself find that respect is like manure. Use it where needed, and growth will flourish. Spread it on too thick, and things just start to smell. — Brandon Sanderson