Bretten Smith Quotes

#1. 'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic.

Peter Jackson

#2. There's a poster with Thomas Edison's quote: GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION.

Lauren Oliver

#3. Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

Richard John Neuhaus

#4. If love isn't there, nothing will grow. If it is, there is always hope and it will win in the end. Love is vital and sacrosanct.

Donna Goddard

#5. I don't know what you call it when you fuck someone's ass raw, Father Bell, but that's what I call it.

Sierra Simone

#6. It's really important to create something, like with my creations as a musician. Just let it flow. Focus on how to deliver message to audience. Don't get ego.

Miyavi

#7. The notion of collective contribution, like the Wikipedia, is a very powerful one.

Nicholas Negroponte

#8. My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

Frank Capra

#9. I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.

Leon Theremin

#10. All of life is just shadows.

Lemony Snicket

#11. I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

Baz Luhrmann

#12. I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against writers like Barth and John Hawkes. I did not care for the post-modernist stuff; my allegiance was to realism.

Robert Stone

#13. You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys.

Sharon Maas

#14. I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.

Juan Williams

#15. I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.

Emilie Autumn