Geisel Quotes

#1. When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. There are a number of songs in the film where the lyrics themselves are very much speaking to the essence of what Ted Geisel was setting out to do.

Christopher Meledandri

#2. I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

Dr. Seuss

#3. That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.

Wes Anderson

#4. It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

Hesiod

#5. Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not ...

William Howard Taft

#6. There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Jean De La Bruyere

#7. It is a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt.

Robert Greene

#8. I've also been known to cry during MasterCard commercials.

Kimberly Raye

#9. In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#10. Every dollar released from taxation, that is spent or invested, will create a new job and a new salary.

John F. Kennedy

#11. Come in, Phelan,' Leo said easily. 'We love silent guests -- it allows us to talk all the more. By all means, sit and say nothing.'

'But if you can manage it,' Catherine added with a smile, 'try to look impressed by our wit and intelligence.

Lisa Kleypas

#12. It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.

Henry Petroski

#13. My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators ... I think it will go relatively quickly, ... [in] weeks rather than months.

Dick Cheney

#14. As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.

Helen Palmer Geisel

#15. dedication is consistency, consecration and separation

Ikechukwu Joseph

#16. Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me to answer because I feel like it's a sensibility that varies for each individual.

Alexander Wang

#17. When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.

David Bowie