Afi Quotes

#1. Religious fermentation is always a symptom of the intellectual vigor of a society; and it is only when they forget that they are hypotheses and put on rationalistic and authoritative pretensions, that our faiths do harm.

William James

#2. Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.

Andy Biersack

#3. Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.

Cameron Russell

#4. I always wanted to live in L.A. The other thing that always inspired me was movies; that's why I'm here. I always wanted to be a part of the movie business and make movies. That's why I went to AFI grad school for filmmaking.

Jeff Vespa

#5. Ask questions. Stay curious. It's much more important to stay interested than to be interesting.

Jane Fonda

#6. I went right to the 'Guide to the Marvel Universe,' which has every Marvel character from A-Z, and fortunately, I had every issue. I found 'Deathlok,' read about him there.

J. August Richards

#7. Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

J.I. Packer

#8. Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to - I can't remember what it was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that.

George W. Bush

#9. Never write more than two pages on any subject.

David Ogilvy

#10. And occasionally a sweet chestnut. Miss Honey, wishing to change the subject for the moment, gave the names of all these to Matilda and taught her how to recognize them by the shape of their leaves and the pattern of the bark on their trunks. Matilda took all this

Roald Dahl

#11. I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.

Douglas Rushkoff

#12. Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

Isamu Noguchi

#13. In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

Molly Parker

#14. My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.

Jason Dolley

#15. I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now ... its AFI-liner

Billie Joe Armstrong

#16. If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?

Charles Platt

#17. If someone had told me a few months ago that this would be my life, I would have recommended they seek help for their crazy.

Cambria Hebert

#18. The Messenger of the LORD camps around those who fear him, and he rescues them.

Baker Publishing Group

#19. You think you know it, but you always find out new stuff.

Gene Siskel

#20. Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.

Rachel Platten