Agnes Bruckner Quotes

#1. Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!

Mark Mason

#2. Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.

Agnes Bruckner

#3. Everyone should have a great leather jacket in their wardrobe. It is perfect to wear with a T-shirt and jeans and great pair of high tops.

Brad Goreski

#4. [Editorial cartooning] is essentially a destructive art. We are not pontificators, or molders of thought - or at least we shouldn't try to be. Ours is more the role of the lowly gadfly: circle and stab, circle and stab. Roughly put, our credo should be, if it's big, hit it.

Bill Mauldin

#5. Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control.

Michael Hastings

#6. Anytime I'm at a club or a party, I'm dancing from beginning to end.

Agnes Bruckner

#7. I first became an Alan Moore fan in Covent Garden on a Saturday afternoon in 1987, when I bought a copy of 'Watchmen,' his graphic novel about ageing superheroes and nuclear apocalypse.

Susanna Clarke

#8. I like to sleep a lot. I mean I really like to sleep.

Agnes Bruckner

#9. The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected ...

Dennis Ritchie

#10. MORPHEUS: I did not intend to hurt you,
THESSALY: And what if you did not? Intent and outcome are so rarely coincident.

Neil Gaiman

#11. I never got a chance to be a teenager.

Agnes Bruckner

#12. For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into.

Agnes Bruckner

#13. The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?

Bobby Fischer

#14. The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.

Veronica Roth

#15. For the most part, I think that people enjoy seeing a movie where they can just have fun in.

Agnes Bruckner

#16. Death's vigilance is eternal, so shall mine be.

Dana Gould

#17. No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.

Andy Rooney

#18. We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.

Erwin Griswold

#19. Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.

Anne Lamott

#20. You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

Agnes Bruckner

#21. I'm a huge gamer! I love playing 'World of Warcraft.' It helps me wind down and escape reality for a few.

Agnes Bruckner

#22. I get a lot of dark scripts now. I don't wanna be stuck doing movies like American Pie. For someone my age, once you get started doing them, it's hard to get out.

Agnes Bruckner

#23. This was a time to prepare for the cold weather, to store up fire and wood. But in those days of the triumph of materialism, matter had become a disembodied idea, and the problems of alimentation and fuel supply took the place of food and firewood.

Boris Pasternak

#24. I'm a fun person, but to be the life of the party all the time, just to walk into a room and be 'on' and have everybody looking at you, that is so incredibly scary for me.

Agnes Bruckner