Babbit Quotes

#1. Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistful. Like most parents he enjoyed the game of waiting till the victim was clearly wrong, then virtuously pouncing.

Sinclair Lewis

#2. Runny's Nicpic
One day Runny Babbit
Met little Franny Fog.
He said, "Let's have a nicpic
Down by the lollow hog."
He brought some cutter bookies,
Some teanuts and some pea.
And what did Franny Fog bring?
Her whole fog framily.

Shel Silverstein

#3. No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.

Ezra Taft Benson

#4. Charlie started crying, in the convulsive, soundless way that men do. "Don't you understand," he said after composing himself, "that's a funeral dirge for the first wave." We all thought about that, the many lives lost before we even opened our eyes this morning.

Suzanne Hayes

#5. He pinned me in place with a direct look, his dark brown eyes smoldering. "You're Mary Jane," he said finally. "And you have all these Flash Thompsons and Harry Osborns hovering around you, trying to make a move. Because ... you're basically amazing.

J.M. Richards

#6. I think women directors have to be really tenacious.

Jamie Babbit

#7. Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor.

Jamie Babbit

#8. Maybe sometimes it's riskier not to take a risk. Sometimes all you're guaranteeing is that things will stay the same.

Danny Wallace

#9. You, sir, are a twat.

John Goode

#10. I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best.

Jamie Babbit

#11. You got to be careful of what comes and leave your mind and how often they do both. Whatever enters your mind has brought a new brand of you and whatever exits is going to manifest that brand.

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. I'm probably one of the most co-dependent people around. That's why I made a movie about it, and I live it every day.

Jamie Babbit

#13. I found if I go to bed with a question on my mind, all I have to do is concentrate on the question before I go to sleep and I virtually always have the answer in the morning.

Malcolm Gladwell

#14. What shall we not go in fear of if we fear that which cowardice itself has chosen for its refuge?

Seneca.

#15. It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make.

Jamie Babbit

#16. I do like the zombie movies quite a bit. I know there are purist zombie guys that don't like the running zombies, but I dig the infected thing. I think that's a scarier incorporation of an element into the genre.

Mark Pellegrino

#17. I'm interested in gay characters - not trying to sensationalize gay characters, just [representing] who are in my personal life. I'm interested in exploring my world and my friends, and a lot of them happen to be gay.

Jamie Babbit

#18. My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible.

Jamie Babbit