Umm Salamah Quotes & Sayings

that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny. — Okey Ndibe

One of the things that is always difficult about a collaboration is that you don't necessarily find the same thing funny. And so the challenge becomes, how do you tell the other person that you don't think something's funny? The best collaborations tend to be when you are willing to be told that. But there's also ego involved, and so there's a lot of frustration in knowing that you're writing something, and the other person, on some level, needs to think that it's funny. — Michael Showalter

You look at any industry - you're not innovating unless people are questioning it. If you're innovating, you're doing something nobody's done before, which means you're re-writing rules, resetting boundaries, re-creating systems. And that means the traditional industry is going to question it. — Ryan Kavanaugh

Losing her was the worst thing I could imagine. Like I was falling, but this time I would definitely hit the ground. - Ethan Lawson Wate — Kami Garcia

Those who think clean thoughts do not do dirty deeds. — Ezra Taft Benson

Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life. — Brian Tracy

I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think about the President. I use nature. I use found images. — Vija Celmins

It'd be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant. — John Marsden

When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds. — Jonathan Swift

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare. — Erin Morgenstern

Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space. — Alan Watts

As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food. — Michael Pollan

It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health. — Daniel Quinn

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German. — Gore Vidal

I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on. — James Cameron