John Dear famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

  • When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

  • We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

  • Ive always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

  • If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

  • Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

  • My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

  • I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

  • Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

  • Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.