"By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Mean Quotes #Selfishness Quotes #Landscape Quotes

“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.”
“One of the things that really fascinates me about movies is that they make seemingly ordinary moments be filled with some curiosity or some energy or some mystery.”
“Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie.”

Source : "Producer Roundtable: 6 Filmmakers on 'Compton' Threats, Tarantino Outbursts and the Truth Behind a 'Star Wars' 'Firing'". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.
“When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.”
“Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. Use is a dirty word only when theres an imbalance in the relationship.”
“You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.”
“When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.”
“Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.41, Atlantic Books Ltd

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