Sam Quotes

It's hard to make a book episodic.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.

The polar bear for many has become a living symbol of the dangers of global warming. The powerful kings of the arctic are finding their habitat shrinking.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

I actually have OCD really bad, and it's getting a bit worse at the moment. I have to check taps... before I leave the house, to make sure I've checked everything in case it floods.

We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

You know the FA's the richest football association in the world? Well, I shouldn't say that. They're not the richest at all. What they do is they have the biggest turnover in the world with £325m.

I keep in touch with what's real.

Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

To win you must have talent and desire ­ but desire is first.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

Honest people have no ethics

He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

It is not a problem. I had been nominated by my country Uganda and the African continent had endorsed me... No matter how much noise the frogs make, they cannot stop a cow from drinking water.

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love

I'm not going to make a present of Santa.

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock.

We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order.

As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.

The words I overuse are all adverbs.

It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings.

There’s a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.