Motion Picture Directors Quotes

#1. Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.

John F. Kerry

#2. I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in ... the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.

William S. Burroughs

#3. The older we become, the more certain our future.

Mason Cooley

#4. The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director ... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.

King Vidor

#5. I didn't know whether I wanted to kill her or fuck her. Maybe both, but one thing was for sure. One way or another, I was going to make her scream. I was finally starting to feel like my old self again.

Anonymous

#6. When he overheard the boys whispering that he was a queer, he said he regarded that as a compliment since so many of the world's great men had been homosexual. Alas, I've been sentenced to a life mundane heterosexuality. I can only hope that a few of you will be more fortunate.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#7. Everyday brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#8. I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.

Henry Rollins

#9. We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.

Seth Shostak

#10. I think it just takes time in order to come to a place where your comfortable being who God made you to be.

Andrew Ripp

#11. Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world.

Mark Victor Hansen

#12. Time is a ribbon, a delicate organdy, so thin that you can see through it to the layer of time below and the layer above. Moments overlapping, lying on top of each other.

Laura Whitcomb

#13. When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.

Ron Kauk

#14. Great leaders make leadership look so easy.

Pat Heim

#15. Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.

Mack Sennett

#16. Nothing is very constant in Beirut. Certainly not dreams. But despair isn't constant either. Beirut is a city to be loved and hated a thousand times a day. Every day. It is exhausting, but it is also beautiful.

Nasri Atallah

#17. I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

Peter Blair Henry