"I've been fascinated with gargoyles since I was a kid. I took a high school trip to Europe, the 8 countries in 5 weeks kind of trip. Even then I collected postcards of gargoyles. Then I sort of forgot about it. You flash-forward a few years and I'm at Disney, we're looking for an idea to base a show on. I was running series development at the time at Disney TV Animation. And we came up with the Gargoyles comedy series. Which didn't sell!"

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: MovieWeb Gets Creepy With Gargoyles Creator Greg Weisman". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. January 16, 2006.

Greg Weisman

#Running Quotes #Country Quotes #School Quotes

“Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.”
“As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.”

Source : Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995). “On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society”, Vintage
“When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.”
“Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.”
“I hope people can see us SHINee, who are doing what we can do now, as we are.”
“... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.”
“America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent. ... Something's eventually going to happen. Government will bloat until it chokes us to death, or one more tyrannical power grab will turn out to be one too many. ... Maybe it'll be one more round of "reasonable gun control" or one more episode of burning children to death to save them from "child abuse." Whatever, something will snap.”

Source : "Freedom Outlaw's Handbook: 179 Things to Do til the Revolution". Book by Claire Wolfe, 2007.
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteinâ€™s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

Source : Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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