Janet Horne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

  • The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

  • You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

  • I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

  • Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

  • The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

  • If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

  • Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

  • I think talented people are priceless. And I think people that are knowledgeable and experienced - and I think there's a balance of new talent and experience, which makes, I think, Estee Lauder really special.

  • We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.

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