J. F. Stone Quotes

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure.

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

Leave women to find their sphere.

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

I'm shockingly terrible at action movies.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

Success to me is my friends and family are healthy and happy and I feel good about myself at the end of the night and I can sleep at night.

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

My mom lost her dad at a very young age, and has this sort of belief system of, you know, "If there's something that you want to do, if there's something that means a lot to you, do it now."

There are so many different areas to explore. There are so many different types of people. It can crush your dreams or help them come true.

The things that make you most mad about the world tend to be the things that you hate in yourself.

Success isn´t guaranteed, but failure is certain if you aren´t truly emotionally invested in your work.

Its really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

Creativity comes from constraint.

I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.

Those who believe they can't repel the positive; they use the negative side of their talisman. Those who believe they can repel the negative; they use the positive side.

I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.

The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

My hair is a battle. It's an uphill, fine, baby-haired battle.

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.

Dancing is such a community feeling.

I'm concerned about people being happy.

I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

I don't do what I love to do a lot of the time.

You always are changed when you come back from summer camp.

The idea that you can't be attractive and funny at the same time is something that I hate.

I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.