W D Gann Quotes

#1. I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings that I discovered cycles, patterns, and psychology dominate the market, and that the news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.

Jeff Cooper

#2. So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.

Jason Gann

#3. To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

Jason Gann

#4. Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.

Ernest K. Gann

#5. I've been insane for a long time. An ex-girlfriend of mine once asked, "Is it true that all comedians are depressed?," and I said, "Every one I know is."

Jason Gann

#6. I am drawn to the new chart with all of its colorful intricacies as a gourmet must anticipate the details of a feast ... I shall keep them forever. As stunning exciting proof that a proper mixture of science and art is not only possible but a blessed union.

Ernest K. Gann

#7. I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

Jason Gann

#8. British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

Jason Gann

#9. I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.

Jason Gann

#10. Did you know, the worst kind of demon is that which is disguised as a human".

Louise Gann

#11. Ding dong, the witch was dead" murmured Merlin as Gwen headed down the path towards the lake. She turned around and smiled "you're not the wizard of OZ Merlin, you don't get to make that call" she replied icily before diving into the cool crisp water.

Louise Gann

#12. If such a thing as love exists, then surely freedom exist to

Louise Gann

#13. The emergencies you train for almost never happen. It's the one you can't train for that kills you.

Ernest K. Gann

#14. The men in this book are fictitious characters but their counterparts can be found in cockpits all over the world. Now they are flying a war. Tomorrow they will be flying a peace, for, regardless of the world's condition, flying is their life.

Ernest K. Gann

#15. I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

Jason Gann

#16. The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.

Jason Gann

#17. I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.

Jason Gann

#18. I'm fascinated in the children within adults.

Jason Gann

#19. I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

Jason Gann

#20. I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

Jason Gann

#21. We lived in and out of our flight bags, they being our true and only home. Thus, if we were not actually flying or sleeping, we were often lonely and at a loss to occupy ourselves.

Ernest K. Gann

#22. It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

Ernest K. Gann

#23. Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.

Ernest K. Gann

#24. ...I stand looking at the aircraft, trying in vain to remember all the theoretical lore which i was supposed to have absorbed in school. The effort is discouraging.

Ernest K. Gann

#25. In referance to flying through thunderstorms; "A pilot may earn his full pay for that year in less than two minutes. At the time of incident he would gladly return the entire amount for the privilege of being elsewhere.

Ernest K. Gann

#26. Because every urge but survival had been reduced to nothing, they had become a mutual will, like that which caused whole peoples to unite in desperation.

Ernest K. Gann

#27. My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

Jason Gann

#28. MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!

Ernest K. Gann

#29. Sometimes girls would come in and audition and they'd talk down, and it was like, "No, no, talk to the human eye level."

Jason Gann

#30. Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

Jason Gann

#31. And the moral of this story is?" asked Amber, and immediately regretted it because it didn't sound tough and bored at all, just snotty. "That everything looks small on paper," Meoraq replied. "But in Gann's world, shit happens." The

R. Lee Smith

#32. My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had I gone back to exchange the beautiful charts at that precise moment? How many times would I, in whatever innocence, be compelled to choose the right time?

Ernest K. Gann