Via Curiano Quotes & Sayings

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child. — Warren Farrell

Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result. — Bob Proctor

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right. — Rupert Penry-Jones

I sat on a somewhat higher sand dune and watched the eastern sky. Dawn in Mongolia was an amazing thing. In one instant, the horizon became a faint line suspended in the darkness, and then the line was drawn upward, higher and higher. It was as if a giant hand had stretched down from the sky and slowly lifted the curtain of night from the face of the earth. It was a magnificent sight, far greater in scale, [ ... ] than anything that I, with my limited human faculties, could comprehend. As I sat and watched, the feeling overtook me that my very life was slowly dwindling into nothingness. There was no trace here of anything as insignificant as human undertakings. This same event had been occurring hundreds of millions - hundreds of billions - of times, from an age long before there had been anything resembling life on earth. — Haruki Murakami

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. — Michael Crichton

I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation. — Ray Harryhausen

Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons. — Edward Abbey