Mark Sheppard Quotes

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.

Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

We are all riding on the same bus.

Tell me something I can dance to.

When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.