Quotechimps
James Marsters – In Europe they call geeks…
“In Europe they call geeks ‘smart people,’ and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn’t value intelligence enough so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.”
-James Marsters
Gordon Lightfoot – I try to keep it…
“I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn’t always do that.”
-Gordon Lightfoot
Samuel Goldwyn – No person who is enthusiastic…
“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.”
-Samuel Goldwyn
Anton Chekhov – Life does not agree with…
“Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.”
-Anton Chekhov
Roger Ebert – The movies that are made…
“The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.”
-Roger Ebert
LeBron James – For me, already being part…
“For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.”
-LeBron James
David Herbert Lawrence – The war is dreadful. It…
“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home.”
-David Herbert Lawrence
Jamie Lee Curtis – I’ve been going through photos…
“I’ve been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.”
-Jamie Lee Curtis
Claude Bernard – Observation is a passive science…
“Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.”
-Claude Bernard
Nicholas Brendon – Constant repetition of tongue-twisters…
“Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.”
-Nicholas Brendon