"I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery."

-- Chris Ware

#Uplifting Quotes #Depressing Quotes #Laughter Quotes

“I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.”

Source : John Burroughs (1924). “Summit of the years”
“Everybody spoke English in my class, and they would turn to me and say, "What's going on in your country?" I would try to explain to Austrians, Poles, Australians, Israelis, Costa Ricans - people from all over the world - what was going on in our country. I would have to say, "I don't know what's going on, either. It's pretty evenly divided in our country. Sometimes one part's on top, and other times, the other faction is on top, and right now it's just crazy. We hate it as much as you do."”
“I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.”

Source : "Cartoon Hangover Creator Fred Seibert On How You Too Can Get Your Cartoon On The Internet". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. March 21, 2013.
“I am a slave to fashion. I love to get into what's hot and current when I dress myself or somebody else. Usually, it's someone else because I'm constantly working on finding the best looks for actors.”
“Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.”
“All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.”
“Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.”
“Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.”

Source : Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books

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