Top 100 Wes'cliff Quotes
#1. The most staunchly determined are but quitters of the right things.
Wes Fesler
#2. I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.
Wes Bentley
#3. Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.
Roger Ebert
#4. Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.
Wes Anderson
#5. I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.
Doseone
#6. There are a few directors as a young person where I was kind of like, 'Well, these are a sure bet.' The Coens, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson.
Allison Tolman
#7. Cleaniness is the cornerstone of discipline and the trademark of success
Wes Fesler
#8. I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.
Wes Borland
#9. What about me?" Wes snapped. "Don't I get a vote?"
Daniel shook his head. "She's willing and you're breathing. I pronounce you man and wife.
Jodi Thomas
#10. I'm too old to be farting around with stuff that isn't precisely what I want to do.
Wes Borland
#11. I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.
Wes Borland
#12. I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifting stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.
Wes Craven
#13. Look for goodness in others, for beauty in the world, and for possibilities in yourself.
Wes Fesler
#14. Always take an extra quarter to the laundry room.
Wes Smith
#15. Oh, absolutely. James Caan was the first movie star I'd ever met, much less worked with. He was an important person to me and my brothers and Wes. Bottle Rocket was the first movie for all of us. As you know, back then, [Caan] was having some career changes, I think.
Luke Wilson
#16. To see something as either black or white is easy. To see the entirety in something that has blending colors takes time. To see something that's not there, takes one who is a visionary.
Wes Adamson
#17. A lot of people have said my movies are all the same. But I don't actually make an effort to have a style. I'm usually just thinking of what can we do to make it funnier or more interesting or just kind of refine it and it ends up like that.
Wes Anderson
#18. It has always been, and will always be true; those who do the most good suffer more than most do.
Wes Fesler
#19. I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."
Wes Craven
#20. Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.
Wes Anderson
#21. For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.
Wes Fesler
#22. You have to be aware of what the audience's expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren't looking.
Wes Craven
#23. I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.
Wes Bentley
#24. Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.
Noah Baumbach
#25. Never be too absorbed by your own ambitions to encourage those of your family.
Wes Fesler
#26. There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.
Wes Borland
#27. The world's greatest changes are made at home.
Wes Fesler
#28. Kids need to think that you care before they care what you think.
Wes Moore
#29. Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.
Adam Green
#30. In diversity we find our strongest bonds and most violent divides.
Wes Fesler
#31. From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.
Wes Fesler
#32. If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
Pat Metheny
#33. Again, please," she whispered.
(Allie to Wes)
Jodi Thomas
#34. Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as well.
Wes Brown
#35. I think everybody goes off and does their own vision. And I don't take responsibility for other people's work, frankly. It's bad enough taking responsibility for my own.
Wes Craven
#36. The forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.
Wes Jackson
#37. Sounds like you've got it all planned out."
"Honey, I've got more plans than Wes has ugly shoes."
"And that's a lot." I laugh.
"It sure is," she says with a sigh.
Laurie Faria Stolarz
#38. Why would you accept the Jesus of the Bible, if you have rejected the Bible of Jesus?
Wes Moore
#39. The concern shouldn't be whether you're "thinking outside the box," the focus should be actually "understanding the box that you're in" and especially its location!
Wes Adamson
#40. You may have taken the planet, but you will lose this game!
Stephenie Meyer
#41. Meet every level of frustration with a greater level of character.
Wes Fesler
#42. A family portrait is only complete with love to fill it's frame.
Wes Fesler
#43. I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.
Wes Anderson
#44. Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience.
Wes Anderson
#45. The hurt, resentment, the revenge, the pride, and regret are thrown hard and fast like snowballs in the winter. Some major ones hit hard; some minor ones just roll off, while others stick for an elongated time ... as long as we stay in the cold frosty air of not letting go.
Wes Adamson
#46. It seems whenever we have a little adversity, the emotions drop. We've fallen out of the race, and it kind of takes the wind out of your sails.
Wes Walz
#47. How is it that society professes to embrace the value of honesty when so few are found of it?
Wes Fesler
#49. How can you have 'Scream' without Ghostface? It's like 'Friday the 13th' without Jason.
Wes Craven
#50. There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.
Wes Craven
#51. I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work.
Wes Craven
#52. The thing of sitting in an audience and going into a dream-like state with several hundred other people that are sharing exactly what you're feeling is a profound event.
Wes Craven
#53. Life-long learning is the modus of keeping your brain ... your thoughts ... your ideas ... engaged in a quest for knowledge that enriches and expands the mind with a constant thirst for wisdom.
Wes Adamson
#54. I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous.
Wes Craven
#55. As my sister used to eloquently put it, our mother wore sweaters so we could wear coats.
Wes Moore
#56. Every diamond has the ability to shine when there is someone to recognize its good facets and inhibit its flaws.
Wes Fesler
#57. If you continue in this vein, I'll amputate your thumbs and big toes so that you'll reel through the rest of your life like a drunken orangutan.
Wes Craven
#58. Pessimists beat their heads against walls, while optimists open doors.
Wes Fesler
#59. There's really no point in doing anything in life because it's all over in the blink of an eye. The next thing you know, rigor mortis sets in.
Wes Anderson
#60. But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.
Wes Craven
#61. Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.
Wes Anderson
#62. When progress is in short supply bring a surplus of determination.
Wes Fesler
#63. You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative.
Wes Craven
#64. Dedication is loyalty to a cause, even when hope has long expired for a successful outcome. It is an unstoppable determination to win regardless of the odds.
Wes Fesler
#65. Commitment is taking the first step, even if it means falling the rest of the way down.
Wes Fesler
#66. The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.
Wes Smith
#67. And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving.
Wes Anderson
#68. Mankind's greatest achievements are found on thank you notes, not resumes.
Wes Fesler
#69. If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
Wes Craven
#70. On a flight of emotion there's wonder and bliss, but beware of a landing that may go amiss.
Wes Fesler
#71. Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.
Wes Anderson
#72. The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.
Wes Anderson
#73. When we're young, it sometimes seems as if our world doesn't exist outside our city, our block, our house, our room. We make decisions based on what we see in that limited world and follow the only models available.
Wes Moore
#74. Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they've done terrible things to!
Wes Craven
#75. By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.
Wes Nisker
#76. It appeared to me that there were already too many dreams festering on shelves with a promise return to them someday, and time was too fickle to trust with such a precious progeny as dreams.
Wes Jacobs
#77. I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the summer between my junior and senior year. After I graduated, I ended up moving out to L.A. But in my senior year, I made it a part of my major.
Wes Brown
#78. It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.
Sarah Dessen
#79. I'm having a reputation of being somebody who will not be crazy. Not descend to doing drugs and spending an enormous amount of money, and instead delivering a product to people. Something they can sell and recoup their money and make a profit.
Wes Craven
#80. There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.
Wes Smith
#81. Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.
Sarah Addison Allen
#82. I think the experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people.
Wes Craven
#83. MR. MOUSTAFA
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once know as humanity... He was one of them. What more is there to say?
Wes Anderson
#84. My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.
Alvin Lee
#85. We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums.
Owen Wilson
#86. Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.
Wes Borland
#87. On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.
Wes Anderson
#88. When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.
Wes Montgomery
#89. Wes [Anderson] is brilliant, kind, and just absolutely fantastic. He was really amazing in the way he can just take ideas, turn them into such beautiful stories, and then bring them to life with these amazing films the way he does.
Kara Hayward
#90. Perceptions of impossibility are commonly disspelled by unmitigated courage and perseverance.
Wes Fesler
#91. Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.
Wes Borland
#92. Tomorrow is your future,
today is your life;
celebrate it! ...
Wes Adamson
#93. I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.
Wes Borland
#94. People need to make sure they have a good humor spark plug inside them that can be ignited at any moment when required.
Wes Adamson
#95. Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.
Wes Fesler
#96. With each movie I have a different set of inspirations.
Wes Anderson
#97. Do you know how writers often say the characters take over ... But that is more or less what it always feels like to me, too. Even though that's just a way of describing how your brain is working, it's still what you tend to feel.
Wes Anderson
#98. Sometimes the greatest victories we can make for mankind are the victories we make over ourselves.
Wes Fesler
#99. I think the work in front of us is the first work task given our forbearers, which is to care for the garden. Now because it's the first thing commanded, maybe it's the first thing forgotten. But it is the first admonition and it is absolutely unequivocal. It is part of right livelihood.
Wes Jackson
#100. I don't see the point in apologizing to someone who remains angry enough to throw me off a cliff ... unless we are standing by a cliff.
Wes Fesler
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