Roadwork Book Quotes

#1. Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

Stephen Chow

#2. The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

Ken MacLeod

#3. Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.

Voltaire

#4. He swore quietly and shook his head. He tried to see some logic in the situation. His deep, angry growl echoed in the room, multiplied by the walls and ceilings. "Damn!" Jatred pounded his fist on his thigh. "She fooled me again.

A.O. Peart

#5. She look like she ain't long for this world but dressed well for the next.

Alice Walker

#6. The elephant in the room has always been simulator sickness and disorientation. That's one of the biggest challenges.

Brendan Iribe

#7. I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

Neil Welliver

#8. If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

Rob Brown

#9. A liar freely gives his oath

Douglas Malloch

#10. Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.

Robert Browning

#11. I've thought about the pictures often; what they show or, more accurately, don't show. Remembering what was happening elsewhere: in the distance, or behind the camera, off to one side.

Harriet Lane

#12. My wife thinks I'm very hot. She tells me that every couple of weeks.

Gregg Marshall

#13. Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.

Miriam Schapiro

#14. [ ... ]as Sylvester says, a man who has never been afflicted with a neurosis does not know the meaning of suffering.

Henry Miller

#15. No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.

Saadi