Famous Quotes & Sayings

Darren Shan

Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!

Bob Kerrey

Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.

Demetri Martin

I went whale watching once. It was very similar to watching people on a boat become disappointed.

Kurt Vonnegut

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

Bill Condon

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

Bill Bryson

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

Bill Vaughan

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Daniel Quinn

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

Andy Weir

How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.

Aaron Sorkin

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.

Aaron Sorkin

There are television critics, movie critics, and theater critics too who I like and who I follow and I get genuinely bummed when they don't like something that I've written because I usually agree with them.

Brian Eno

American television really is pathetic.

Dave Chappelle

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

David Shuster

Meet the Press is the oldest and most treasured public affairs show on television.

Dave Barry

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

Bryant Gumbel

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

James Wolk

Getting a second thing isn't always easy in this busy, competitive television market.

James Wolk

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

Janet Maslin

Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and sensibility of its subject as its 86 minute format allows.

Edward Norton

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Jamie Bell

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

Ed Cunningham

You can always go back and reconstruct stuff in a documentary, but it's so much cooler when you're there as it happens.

Dennis Hopper

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

Catherine Opie

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

Don DeLillo

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

Anna Deavere Smith

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

Darren Aronofsky

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in