Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Richard Ayoade

A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.

Russell Banks

Nobody does anything for one reason.

Russell Brand

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

Woodrow Wilson

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

William Wycherley

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

William Shenstone

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

William J. Clinton

I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts.

John Steinbeck

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.

Jacqueline Carey

One must gauge one's trust carefully.

Henry David Thoreau

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

Rian Johnson

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

Robert Culp

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

Robert Schwentke

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.

Sanjay Dutt

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

Samuel Fuller

A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

Samuel Goldwyn

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

Ryan Phillippe

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

Ryan Reynolds

I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.

Zach Braff

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.