"It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?"

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Richard Donner

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Different Quotes

“The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.”
“The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.”

Source : Gerald Durrell (1989). “The Amateur Naturalist”, Alfred A. Knopf
“It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.”
“If you like Powers, you'll love The Victories!”
“An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.”
“Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.”
“God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.”
“The study of everything that stands connected with the death of Christ, whether it be in the types of the ceremonial law, the predictions of the prophets, the narratives of the gospels, the doctrines of the epistles, or the sublime vision of the Apocalypse, this is the food of the soul, the manna from heaven, the bread of life. This is "meat indeed" and "drink indeed.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 69, 1895.

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