Top 15 Dubiously Canon Quotes
#1. He wondered how much trouble he could get into for shooting non-American civilians.
Terry Pratchett
#2. Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem.
George Polya
#4. We grew up watching Woody Allen and Albert Brooks movies, and we see this neurotic, annoying, unlikeable male at the center of a story, and people root for him anyway. I think that's really what we have been craving as women is the hero who doesn't look perfect and doesn't act perfectly.
Jill Soloway
#5. You can't sit next to me doing nothing while I'm trying desperately to save myself by doing something.
David B.
#6. We cannot divorce what we are producing from what we are. We create technology out of the vision we have of ourselves. If we are blind in our conception of ourselves we will create a blind technology.
Shirley Maclaine
#7. Flame mails and offensive Internet activities are not classy. It doesn't fit with our culture here, where we respect the gender, race, opinions, ear-lobe apparel and choice of clothing of all employees.
David Duffield
#9. Is it not a noble farce, where kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?
Michel De Montaigne
#10. Zooms are lazy closeups. And too many people hang their hats on video assist; it's a way to avoid too much. Video assist helps people dissociate from the scene that they are directing. Pretty soon the director will be directing all the way from his apartment.
Gordon Willis
#11. I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.
Vanessa Bayer
#12. We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
Omar Ahmad
#13. In general, the reason things are on your mind is that the outcome and the action step(s) have not been appropriately defined, and/or reminders of them have not been put in places where you can be trusted to look for them appropriately.
David Allen
#14. Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes of color glittering around the cavern when she moved. They were concentrated most densely around her ... well ... She'd been, ah, vajazzled.
Jim Butcher
#15. By the end of the writing process, which is about 80 songs per album, I look at the material and think, what's going to make a difference in someone's life.
Jason Mraz
