Bruce Conner Quotes

#1. What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.

Oprah Winfrey

#2. I've never experienced peace in my life, and I don't want to. I don't trust the idea

Janet Kauffman

#3. What's shaking, Gatorbait?

Abigail Roux

#4. Man made borders not to limit himself, but to have something to cross.

Anonymous

#5. The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.

Danny Lyon

#6. It was the view of the people in the Department of State that the handling of Yemen affairs from Aden was too much of a burden on the then Consul, so an additional officer was named to the American Consulate at Aden to handle Yemeni affairs. I was designated for that task.

Hermann Eilts

#7. The movie is so fun. I've done period pieces before but nothing with this twist. And the movie is just full of such wonderful people, such young actors - people like Matt Smith that I've been friends with for a while.

Douglas Booth

#8. A leader with great passion and few skills always outperforms a leader with great skills and no passion.

John C. Maxwell

#9. When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

Bruce Conner

#10. To be tall and forbidding might command respect for a time, but not affection. To be overly familiar might command affection for a time, but not respect.

Jon Meacham

#11. With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

Bruce Conner

#12. Too much honor destroys a man quicker than too much of any other fine quality.

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. A good intention clothes itself with power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#15. Some children at one of his tournaments in Burgundy had taken to calling him "Goliath". Not the most endearing biblical character.

Melanie Dickerson

#16. I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner.

Barry McGee

#17. From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory:

William Shakespeare

#18. I found bossing other people about such a delightful novelty that I had to remind myself of Lord Acton's famous axiom about its tendency to corrupt.

Victoria Clayton

#19. I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

Bruce Conner