"There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach your children to bring them in for themselves. Take your text from the brooks, not from the booksellers."

-- Louis Agassiz

#Summer Quotes #Country Quotes #Children Quotes

“I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.”
“All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.”
“People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do.”
“There's nothing wrong with shooting for the stars.”
“I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.”
“You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.”
“As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.”
“Achieving what I set out to do: to feel that I was instrumental in starting a great new movement which could not only change the course of things for Humanity and the rest of Creation, but alter Man's expectation of surviving for much longer on this planet.”

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