Robert > Robert's Quotes

“Whatever you want to be in life, you're training for it right now.”
― Michael Anderson

“There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
― George Carlin

“Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.”
― Nicholas Meyer

“You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.”
― Dick Van Dyke, My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business

“It's a long drive home to Tarzana.”
― Ray Davies

“I've been very lucky in my life in terms of people who are able to tolerate me.”
― Patton Oswalt, Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film

“In other words, if your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him; which is, of course, what horse manure has always been about.”
― Ray Bradbury

“I was responsible for a clause that is now standard in all studio DVDs, the disclaimer that states that the studio is in no way responsible for any of the content or comments made by people appearing in the interviews on the disc. It is hard to overstate the importance of this clause: It enables those supplementary DVD segments to be more than mere puff pieces but a valuable form of oral history. People can tell their differing, multiple versions and perceptions of the truth”
― Nicholas Meyer, The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood

“At its best, Star Trek appears to function as pop-allegory/ pop metaphor, taking current events and issues (ecology, war, racism) and objectifying them for us to contemplate in a sci-fi setting. The world it presents may make no scientific sense but it is well and truly sufficient to lay out human questions for us to think about. Removed from our immediate neighborhoods, it is refreshing and even intriguing to consider earth matters from the distance of a few light years. Like the best science fiction, Star Trek does not show us other worlds so meaningfully as it shows us our own—for better or worse, in sickness and in health. In truth, Star Trek doesn’t really even pretend to show us other worlds—only humanity refracted in a vaguely hi-tech mirror.”
― Nicholas Meyer, The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood

“The French director Robert Bresson made the observation: “My job is not to find out what the public want and give it to them; my job is to make the public want what I want.”
― Nicholas Meyer, The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood

“The comic strip is no longer the comic strip, but in reality an illustrated novel. It is new and raw in form just now, but material for limitless intelligent development. And eventually and inevitably it will a legitimate medium for the best writers and artists. It is already the embryo of a new art form.”
― Will Eisner

“Paths that cross will cross again.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids