Special Quotes - Page 37

I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"

To me it's the best trophy you can win and to bring it back for all them fans that have supported us right through would be something special.

When you're an elite athlete, it's a very special moment in time and you don't want it to end.

There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

Everyone is special in their own way.

You're special, if you have some power in the world. People are looking at you and they think you're special.

There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

My idea was that the role of the special forces were to train Vietnamese to behave as guerrillas, harassing the supply lines down through the mountains of the, ah, the Viet Cong. And the special American special forces were to train their special forces to do that.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.

Because I'm a special gatekeeper. I'm the head gatekeeper. Because, although, as you can see, I'm only a head, I'm also the gatekeeper. Which makes me the head gatekeeper. Which makes me very special, don't you agree?

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

I draw the line at some things. Some things I won't do for any amount of money. Like for instance, there's a couple of CEOs of very large corporations that offered me lots of money to do special pictures for them. And I just refused to do that. Even if it was a million dollars I wouldn't do it.

God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.

Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.

…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants.