Weir Quotes

#1. I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.

Paul Bettany

#2. Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.

Saul David

#3. Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but when we started looking at each other, we had all these different influences ... Bobby Weir used to call it electric Dixieland.

Phil Lesh

#4. Many books open with an author's assurance of order. One slipped into their waters with a silent paddle ... But novels commenced with hesitation or chaos. Readers were never fully in balance. A door a lock a weir opened and they rushed through, one hand holding a gunnel, the other a hat.

Michael Ondaatje

#5. I'd say in general, my style is Johnny Weir style. It's my style. I can't classify it as anything else.

Johnny Weir

#6. I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.

Johnny Weir

#7. An Essay from Andy Weir: How Science Made Me a Writer I'm a nerd. Okay, a lot of people say that these days. But I really am. I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age fifteen.

Andy Weir

#8. I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

David Wenham

#9. I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.

Isabella Rossellini

#10. When I met Peter Weir, we did a movie called 'Master and Commander' together, and that's when I really started to understand the power of acting, the power of directing, finding the emotion in performance.

Robert Stromberg

#11. Peter Weir has just shrugged off an ankle injury

Jock Brown

#12. When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city.

Roy Oswalt

#13. When I was a kid, it was a little bit exciting working with Peter Weir and Robin Williams, but that faded pretty quickly for me.

Robert Sean Leonard

#14. I still have so much passion to perform ... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.

Johnny Weir

#15. Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.

Wavy Gravy

#16. The experience on that movie ( Dead Poets Society ) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.

Ethan Hawke

#17. Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.

Mark Morris

#18. Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life.

Alison Weir

#19. Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

Peter Weir

#20. If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again ... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.

Ingrid Weir

#21. ...duct tape is magic and should be worshipped.

Andy Weir

#22. So what's the point of it all?"
"Seriously?" I asked. "Seriously? You're asking me for the meaning of life? Isn't that a little stereotypical?"
"Well it's a reasonable question," you persisted.

Andy Weir

#23. At six o'clok the young King's terrible sufferings finally ended. After his eyes had closed for the last time, the tempeste raged on. Later, superstitious folk claimed that Henry himself had sent it, and had risen from his grave in anger at the subversion of his will.

Alison Weir

#24. I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.

Johnny Weir

#25. My family, the support of my friends, the amount of people that have written and come up to me on the street and said, 'Thank you for representing us,' and Adam Lambert, and Lady Gaga, that's been amazing.

Johnny Weir

#26. Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight.

Ingrid Weir

#27. I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.

Johnny Weir

#28. Yeah, I definitely pulled something in my back. I woke up in agony. So I took a break from rover planning. Instead, I spent the day taking drugs and playing with radiation.

Andy Weir

#29. The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.

Bob Weir

#30. I am not a brave man ... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.

Andy Weir

#31. Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his shoulders and walked him through the Gate into Darkness--might Science yet summon him back?

Ian Weir

#32. I totally understand that I am a little outrageous in some ways ... I'm a little un-P.C., but I really wish I had the chance to perform for the American fans.

Johnny Weir

#33. (assuming they didn't cancel the program in the wake of my "death").

Andy Weir

#34. Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.'

Johnny Weir

#35. Here's a woman who had survived the centrifuge, the vomit comet, hard-landing drills and 10k runs. A woman who fixed a simulated MDV computer failure while being spun around upside-down. But she was afraid of a tattoo needle.

Andy Weir

#36. Everything just changed. Watney's headed for Pathfinder.

Andy Weir

#37. I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

Arabella Weir

#38. I'm going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.

Johnny Weir

#39. If you asked every engineer at NASA what the worst scenario for the Hab was, they'd all answer "fire." If you asked them what the result would be, they'd answer "death by fire." But

Andy Weir

#40. I told NASA what I did. Our (paraphrased) conversation was: Me: "I took it apart, found the problem, and fixed it." NASA: "Dick.

Andy Weir

#41. 'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!

Alison Weir

#42. We'll keep you posted.

Andy Weir

#43. I don't eat as much as an athlete should. I just don't like it.

Johnny Weir

#44. When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.

Johnny Weir

#45. The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult ... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.

Judith Weir

#46. Just once I'd like something to go as planned, ya know?

Andy Weir

#47. I'd love to learn how to foxtrot and cha cha. Believe it or not, I have terrible dancing skills. I can do everything on the ice, but as soon as you put me on the ground, I'm that person that falls down walking off a curb.

Johnny Weir

#48. I'm calling it the Watney Triangle because after what I've been through, shit on Mars should be named after me.

Andy Weir

#49. Okay, enough self-pity. I'm not doomed. Things will just be harder than planned. I have all I need to survive.

Andy Weir

#50. The world consisted of predators and prey. You were either hunting or running.

Charlene Weir

#51. I do hope some of my work has a long lifetime. A piece that works out well this year may work out very well in twenty years' time as well, but I'm very much thinking about what's the right piece now, at this moment.

Judith Weir

#52. Everyone, I understand your positions. We have procedures. Skipping those procedures means risk. Risk means trouble for your department. But now isn't the time to cover our asses. We have to take risks or Mark Watney dies.

Andy Weir

#53. I'm going to finish off the last of Three's Company tonight. Frankly, I like Mr. Furley more than the Ropers.

Andy Weir

#54. I've looted that poor Hab for everything it could give me, and in return it's kept me alive for a year and a half. It's like the Giving Tree.

Andy Weir

#55. I hate summer, to be honest. I hate dressing. I hate the heat. I hate sweaty people getting aggressively close to you when you're walking down the street.

Johnny Weir

#56. I'm traveling 90 kilometers per day as usual, but I only get 37 kilometers closer to Schiaparelli because Pythagoras is a dick.

Andy Weir

#57. Well, that concept is critical to the "Mark Watney doesn't die" project

Andy Weir

#58. Men, however, were encouraged to sow their wild oats, but a woman who did so became a social outcast and ruined her chances of making a good marriage.

Alison Weir

#59. Do you believe in God, Venkat?" Mitch asked.
"Sure, lots of 'em," Venkat said. "I'm Hindu.

Andy Weir

#60. I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

Peter Weir

#61. Great Martian Potato Migration. Anyway,

Andy Weir

#62. I ask for a picture, and I get the Fonz

Andy Weir

#63. Message reads: 'Houston, be advised: Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man.

Andy Weir

#64. Damn it, Jim, I'm a botanist, not a chemist!

Andy Weir

#65. You'd think after almost killing myself twice, I'd be able to stop screwing around with hydrazine. But nope.

Andy Weir

#66. So I go out every night with a homemade sextant and sight Deneb. It's kind of silly if you think about it. I'm in my space suit on Mars and I'm navigating with sixteenth-century tools.

Andy Weir

#67. I was thinking about picking up kayaking, but I didn't want anyone to think I had herpes.

Ingrid Weir

#68. I would have done it today, but it got dark and I got lazy.

Andy Weir

#69. But oxygen's easier to find on Mars than you might think. The atmosphere is 95 percent CO2. And I happen to have a machine whose sole purpose is liberating oxygen from CO2. Yay, oxygenator!

Andy Weir

#70. I'm a well-honed machine in times of crisis.

Andy Weir

#71. Watney snorted in their direction. Then he closed his eyes and felt the sun on his face. It was a nice, boring afternoon.

Andy Weir

#72. If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.

Andy Weir

#73. A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.

Andy Weir

#74. I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community,

Johnny Weir

#75. Anyway, my ribs hurt like hell, my vision is still blurry from acceleration sickness, I'm really hungry, it'll be another 211 days before I'm back on Earth, and, apparently, I smell like a skunk took a shit on some sweat socks. This is the happiest day of my life.

Andy Weir

#76. I'm a huge fur fan; it's no secret to anyone anymore.

Johnny Weir

#77. I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

Johnny Weir

#78. I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.

Mike Weir

#79. Something very hot and very explodey had happened, and I wasn't sure what. Or how.

Andy Weir

#80. The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.

Mike Weir

#81. I admit it's fatally dangerous," Watney said. "But consider this: I'd get to fly around like Iron Man." "We'll keep working on ideas," Lewis said. "Iron Man, Commander. Iron Man.

Andy Weir

#82. We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

Bob Weir

#83. Anything, Tim?" "Totally," he replied. "But we're staring at this black screen because it's way more interesting than pictures from Mars." "You're a smart-ass, Tim," Venkat said. "Noted.

Andy Weir

#84. My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

Arabella Weir

#85. I'll drop the oxygen mixture to zero and breathe pure nitrogen until I suffocate. It wouldn't feel bad. The lungs don't have the ability to sense lack of oxygen. I'd just get tired, fall asleep, then die.

Andy Weir

#86. Half the people who studied botany were hippies who thought they could return to some natural world system. Somehow feeding seven billion people through pure gathering.

Andy Weir

#87. I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.

Peter Weir

#88. I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

Silas Weir Mitchell

#89. Any concerns or reservations?" Venkat asked. "Yeah. I'm concerned about what I ate last night. I think it had an eyeball in it." "I'm sure there wasn't an eyeball." "The engineers here made it for me special," Mitch said. "There may have been an eyeball," Venkat said. "They hate you.

Andy Weir

#90. Sure enough, the water heated up. That's not really a surprise, but it's nice to see thermodynamics being well behaved.

Andy Weir

#91. The danger of having too close deadlines ... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

Judith Weir

#92. After a search of everyone's personal items (hey, if they wanted privacy, they shouldn't have abandoned me on Mars with their stuff)

Andy Weir

#93. Some people eat, some people drink, some people smoke. I Pledge.

Johnny Weir

#94. Million-mile-high club," Martinez said. "Nice!

Andy Weir

#95. I wonder what NASA would think about me fucking with the RTG like this. They'd probably hide under their desks and cuddle with their slide rules for comfort.

Andy Weir

#96. That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex.

Johnny Weir

#97. I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

Peter Weir

#98. To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.

Johnny Weir

#99. I think a really rich world to live in is where you're thinking in terms of human behavior and human types and not being super literal. In order to see the deeper truth, you need to break out of literal frame of mind.

Silas Weir Mitchell

#100. So what do we do, then? He's not going to decompose. He'll be there forever." "Not forever," Teddy said. "Within a year, he'll be covered in sand from normal weather activity.

Andy Weir