The General Buster Keaton Quotes

#1. Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.

W.G. Sebald

#2. Evolution was a random walk across a minefield, not a pre-ordained trajectory, onward and upward toward perfection.

Greg Egan

#3. You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.

Diego Della Valle

#4. People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.

Jason Reitman

#5. It is strange how fragile this man-creature is ... in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.

Nelson Algren

#6. That's my dysfunction in the hallway.

Katie McGarry

#7. Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created.

Mike McCue

#8. If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

#9. It is no wonder that I had tears of relief, to find out, finally, the truth - to discover an explanation, a diagnosis that explained not one or two of my symptoms or behaviours but ALL of them. Finally, someone saw me

Jeannie Davide-Rivera

#10. Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.

Peter Jackson

#11. Dance keeps me fit! It's been a huge benefit in my life and it will forever be a part of me.

Allison Holker

#12. Just as you wouldn't allow a destructive stranger into your home, don't allow harmful, unchecked thoughts to occupy space in your mind.

Shannon Tanner

#13. A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.

Geoff Mulgan

#14. We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#15. I try to take the pain and find a way to use it in my work; I find that it makes the work deeper.

Jacob Vargas

#16. If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.

Drew Endy