Movie Pelican Quotes

#1. At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.

Sally Mann

#2. Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

Laurie R. King

#3. Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur.

Darell Hammond

#4. You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely.

Gavin Schmidt

#5. Consider first, man, what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear. If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things.

Epictetus

#6. I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.

Mamie Gummer

#7. In the end, all solutions are temporary.

Garrison Keillor

#8. The sea is not all that responds to the moon. Twice a day the solid earth bobs up and down, as much as a foot. That kind of force and that kind of distance are more than enough to break hard rock. Wells will flow faster during lunar high tides.

John McPhee

#9. He who awaits much can expect little.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#10. A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.

Aeschylus

#11. I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

Roseanne Barr

#12. Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

Peter Mullan

#13. When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. Basically, to exercise faith means to "sit upon" the Word that God gave us; to rest on it, or submit to it, knowing that God will keep it.

Guillermo Maldonado

#15. The essence of socialization is to make people dependent on social controls, to have them respond predictably to rewards and punishments.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi