Melies Quotes

#1. Word inflation ... Bigger and better. Good greater greatest totally great. Hyperbolic and hyperbolicker. Like grade-inflation.

David Foster Wallace

#2. In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

Tavis Smiley

#3. From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

Raymond Chandler

#4. I do enjoy wearing a little heel when I'm at work, but when I'm running around with my son, it's a different story!

Miranda Kerr

#5. Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.

Kage Baker

#6. Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy.

Demi Lovato

#7. Being proud of something is a very tricky word and I sometimes think it has a bad connotation. I don't feel proud, I feel grateful. I'm lucky.

David Canary

#8. In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.

Kage Baker

#9. I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

Sarah Silverman

#10. Real spirituality is about getting the bullshit out of your life and getting real. Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can't be humble without self-love.

Bryant McGill

#11. Fairy tales only happen in movies.
-George Melies
from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick

#12. I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins.

Peter Ustinov

#13. Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics
reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

Edith Pearlman

#14. Am I to follow him?" the master enquired uneasily, with a touch on his reins.
"No," answered Woland, "why try to pursue what is completed?

Mikhail Bulgakov