Sennett Quotes

#1. I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

Michel Gondry

#2. If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

Robert Benchley

#3. Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

Gloria Swanson

#5. The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.

Mack Sennett

#6. We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.

Mack Sennett

#7. Don't confuse efforts with results....

C.P. Sennett

#8. Being a pioneer can be damn lonely, too early, no money, tough, endless, stupid," Samwer said. "And that healed us. Since then, we basically say, Fuck you. We don't care whether you think we are not smart enough to invent something.

Frank Sennett

#9. If nothing changes then nothing changes.

C.P. Sennett

#10. The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#11. I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!

Alice Waters

#12. If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Fiona Apple

#13. Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained.

Richard Sennett

#14. Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Nicolas Chamfort

#15. ISBN 978-0-300-11633-5

Richard Sennett

#16. Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

Richard Sennett

#17. Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

Richard Sennett

#18. There are two aspects of man's existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: love and art.

Ayn Rand

#19. Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited; if the Romans consulted the heavens for guidance in this effort, the city fathers of New York consulted the banks.

Richard Sennett

#20. Beloved King of Comedy.

Mack Sennett

#21. There are girls, not specially beautiful, whom you could not lose in a crowd. There are other girls, apparently perfect in beauty, who seem to melt into insignificance.

Mack Sennett

#22. You can't understand how wine is made simply by drinking lots of it.

Richard Sennett

#23. I think that when we were younger, the fact of knowing our uncle Derrike won the Daytona 500. We were racing go-karts then, and I think that really kind of motivated us.

Amber Cope

#24. There is something more here than embarrassment at being praised. The strengths 'I' have are not admissible to the arena of ability where they are socially useful; for once admitted, 'I'
my real self
would no longer have them.

Richard Sennett

#25. The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once.

Eli Siegel

#26. Electronic communication is one means by which the very idea of public life has been put to an end.

Richard Sennett

#27. We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

Richard Sennett

#28. For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

Pierre Soulages

#29. Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

Richard Sennett

#30. Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Winston S. Churchill

#31. To the absolutist in every craftsman, each imperfection is a failure; to the practitioner, obsession with perfection seems a perception for failure.

Richard Sennett

#32. The single most pressing earthly obligation of every medieval artisan was the establishment of a good personal reputation.11

Richard Sennett

#33. But still he keeps working with a will; that's the craftsman in him. (pg-265)

Richard Sennett

#34. Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

Mandy Patinkin

#35. The past was in them, still disturbing but no longer a governing history; the trauma strengthened the convictions they possessed about how to lead their lives.

Richard Sennett

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

Mack Sennett

#37. The carpenter, lab technician, and conductor are all craftsmen because they are dedicated to good work for its own sake.

Richard Sennett

#38. The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone

Richard Sennett

#39. To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing
what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

Gerhard Richter

#40. Hollywood is something imagined ... acting is something crafted.

Laura Vandervoort