Ed Bliss Quotes

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.

Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.

I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.

Happiness is an inside job.

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

I heard the spring light whisper Above the dancing stream, The world is made forever in likeness of a dream.

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Bottlenecks are usually at the tops of bottles.

I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.

Bearing sham and scoffing rude, in my place condemned He stood - Sealed my pardon with His blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior!

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

Since the early bird catches the worm, it's a good idea to begin your day as soon as you can -- unless, of course, you happen to be a worm.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

A few fat files are better than a lot of thin ones.

I like The Big Lebowski. The Dude is my man. My brother and I can quote that.

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies.

Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.

Life as a voice actress is tough. It's not an easy career.

I don't like the term 'voice-over.

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.

I just feel so fortunate, A, that I'm able to talk to people and B, keep in contact with my real friends.

Now we know more about it and we teach our children not to get into cars with strangers but back then it was you know people didn't really use to that mentality yet.

I think that Jerry Bruckheimer just kind of has his finger on the pulse of what America wants.

I am a huge fan of Gena Rowlands. I love that she is still working and always in something fresh and new.

We have people who were actually CSIs on set [CSI: Miami], so definitely I have learned a lot just having them around.

Michael Riley Burke who played [Ted] Bundy did a really good job. He does look like him too, so it does make it hard and there are aspects of it, of course, that are just terrifying.