quotes about Please Yourself

“The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.”

“One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.”

“I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs.”

“I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies!”

“Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.”

Source : Frances Ridley Havergal (1875). “Little pillows; or, Good-night thoughts for the little ones”, p.43

“...there's no such thing as sustainability. There are just levels of it. It's a process, not a real goal. All you can do is work toward it. There's no such thing as any sustainable economy. The only thing I know that's even close to sustainable economic activity would be organic farming on a very small scale or hunting and gathering on a very small scale. And manufacturing, you end up with way more waste than you end up with finished product. It's totally unsustainable. It's just the way it is.”

“An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.”

“Providing internship opportunities… changes the whole equation.”

“It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.”

Source : John Lewis Gaddis (2006). “The Cold War: A New History”, p.10, Penguin

“Raymond Carver had the quote that I loved about how he felt that a short story was the moment right before someone's life was about to fall apart. You can't really do that with a novel, but with a story you're just left hanging.”