In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

Matthew Fox

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

Jane Austen

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Kurt Vonnegut

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Benjamin Franklin

...set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

Neil Gaiman

When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.

Frances O'Grady

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either. ? There's both sweet and sour in every day. ? So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful? ? Concentrate on the good.

Richelle E. Goodrich

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

Walter Benjamin

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

When Hitler attacked the JewsThere are other versions. There is no definitive wording or verified source.

Martin Niem, Attributed: Congres

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

Danny Bonaduce