E. G. Marshall Quotes

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.

We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you kept your Yankees cards pristine.

It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".

I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page.

When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.

My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors.

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.

Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.

Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle.

Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!

. . . a constitution, intended toendure for ages to come, andconsequently, to be adapted to thevarious crises of human affairs.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

You know your vote doesn't count, but you go through the motions, because it's been drummed into your head that you might be the one person who makes a difference.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

Pain becomes proud because it believes no one else understands.

When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?

I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience

‎Destiny finds those who listen, and fate finds the rest.

And I wanted to believe that there could be an us. That some way, somehow there would be an us somewhere in the future that I could not see.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the chance to struggle some more.

Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.

No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship.

Suicide is the utmost sincere and candid apology to the ones you hurt most

After we deal and heal...NOT A A SHRED OF EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT LIFE IS SERIOUS.....Jan Marshall

I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.

I caught one last glimpse of her face, howling something at me.There were too many vowels in what she said, and they were in an unkind order. ("Substitutions")

Poetry is the struggle against the simplification, codification, and mummification of language, it serves as a constant redirect - moving us to the experience to which the words point.

I had a dream about you last night... we tried to joke but neither could make any sense. We realized that puns are present in every language, though not shared by any of them.

It's today I must be living.

I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.

Storyboarded by the West Coast’s finest, the ceiling celebrated the exploits of that most durable of action heroes—God.

The food chain has victims at both ends: even rapists and murderers need someone to look down on, and kid killers will do nicely.

The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye…Clothing, an extension of the skin…Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.

The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer.

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.