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Milos Forman Quotes

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: czechoslovakian
Birth: February 18, 1932

Topics

Hope Challenge Mediocrity Never Away

I'll fly Away took place in the 50's and 60's in America's South, and there are a couple of scenes where me and my friends are supposed to be skinny dipping with these girls.

Me Fly Friends America Place Skinny

The Chinese are much too sensible to like turkey - come to think of it, I don't think I've ever encountered turkey anywhere in East Asia, either in a market or on a menu.

John Lanchester

Think Menu Come Market Like Chinese

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

Michael Fassbender

Failure Looking Pressure Feel You

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Imagination Rules Only Guess

Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.

Michael Nielsen

Value Effort Data Open Share Most

As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie.

Influence Say Heroes Big Alabama

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

Believe More Banking Things Would

The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator.

Joseph P. Bradley

Mother Wife Woman Law Destiny Noble

I like reading books with both hands, with my heart pumping, with blood on the page. So I'm interested in people who make stuff, and I'm interested in the lives that make the text. To read a book or watch a movie any other way, to me, personally, feels like a waste of time and misapplication of energy.

Heart Time People Me Energy Reading

I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so I came back licking my wounds to New York, where I live, and started to write a script about a protagonist for whom the exact same thing happened: His life was falling apart.

Tim Blake Nelson

Life Live New York Writing Back New

Virtuality - connection without proximity - is a major attraction in both fandom and the Net. Nobody knows you're a dog through the U.S. mail, either. Fans could be utterly different in their fanzine persona, which may be why both fandom and the Net were invented by individualistic Americans.

Gregory Benford

Dog You Connection Nobody Why Mail

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

Grace Napolitano

Uncertainty Security New Investment

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