Tim Samaras Quotes

#1. The way he talked to her. It was outrageous. It was blunt. It was impossible. And it was ... precisely what she needed, the truth boned and filleted without garnish or flourish, placed in front of her for her decision. He made her wants seem ordinary instead of dark and dangerous.

Courtney Milan

#2. I'm not sure exactly why I chase storms. Perhaps it's to witness the incredible beauty of what Mother Nature can create.

Tim Samaras

#3. Just because a flower blooms late does not make it any less beautiful.

Tim Spiess

#4. The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. If you watched 'Lost,' sometimes the episodes were crazy good, and sometimes you're like, 'That one was just sorta there.'

Bobby Moynihan

#6. Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

George Ayittey

#7. Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny) ... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.

Leonard Maltin

#8. My passion for storm chasing has always been driven by the beautiful and powerful storms displayed in the heartland each spring.

Tim Samaras

#9. You know, there's something especially lonely about a gold medal hanging all by itself on a bedroom wall, something that says "fluke," or "beginner's luck," or "one in a million," but two gold medals, now that says something completely different. That says, "Oh, yeah, baby, this is the real deal!

Christopher Paul Curtis

#10. Keep your focus on your passion in life and the things you enjoy doing. Youll get there. Trust me. I'm doing it.

Tim Samaras

#11. I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do.

Oren Peli

#12. The curse of men can't make me defiled.
I defile myself if I curse men by intention.

Toba Beta

#13. I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

Richard Linklater

#14. By the time I'm old and retired I'm hoping to contribute enough that people can take this piece and run with it then others, such as the college students that are participating on this can take off and finish out the mission when I'm long gone

Tim Samaras

#15. Grrrrowpt." said dead Penelope. Dead Huthbert nodded, and hugged her.
She moved his dusty hand from her dusty ass." - BATS 2015

Fred Barnett

#16. We had said, it was either all of us or none of us.

Connie Sellecca

#17. When we have an out-of-control appetite for food, it signals that we have put that appetite above its rightful place as a necessary and God-given function.

Stephen Arterburn