Van Veen Quotes

#1. Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently.

Ricky Van Veen

#2. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

John Lubbock

#3. I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when what's usually in the center of a painting is very important? It's like the main course isn't there and you're having to deal with everything around what would normally be the main course.

Robert Mangold

#4. When people tell you Web content is better than television content, they probably don't mean that, they probably enjoy the format of the Web better than the format of TV.

Ricky Van Veen

#5. No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.

William Blackstone

#6. Viral videos aren't just about being funny. They're about identity creation.

Ricky Van Veen

#7. The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.

Publilius Syrus

#8. Hope is like the Sun. When it's behind the clouds, it's not gone. You just have to find it!
- Matthew, Age 11, Lanoka Harbor, New Jersey, March 21

R.J. Palacio

#9. Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?

Christopher Marlowe

#10. Life: another day, another dolor.

Edward Abbey

#11. [T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

Tahir Shah

#12. All Internet comedy is niche comedy. If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every other Halo fan. But if you did an episode of a network comedy that parodied Halo, most of your audience wouldn't even get it.

Ricky Van Veen

#13. I'm hungry, Raul," she said from the head of the stairs. "Want to go down and see what this old ship's galley can whomp up for lunch?

Dan Simmons

#14. I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for them.

Ricky Van Veen

#15. Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.

Ricky Van Veen

#16. Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.

Nhat Hanh

#17. In the midst of escaping from Imperial warriors was definitely the wrong time to be mentally undressing flying women.

Michelle M. Pillow

#18. Don't ever touch her again," Hayden growled.
Kurt looked up, eyes wide. "Are you threatening me - over her? I'm like your brother, Hayden!"
"Not anymore.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#19. National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.

Ricky Van Veen

#20. I know that the future is scary at times. But there's just no escaping it.

Ernest Cline

#21. 216 hours . . . of feeling dead. 12,960 minutes . . . of feeling lost. 777,600 seconds . . . of feeling completely numb.

Gail McHugh

#22. If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money.

Ricky Van Veen

#23. The kids have all seen it on DVD or videotape.

Frankie Avalon

#24. If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long.

Ricky Van Veen