#pie

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#apple #apple pie #first #invent #make

I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#fantasy #films #ford #i #i think

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ↗

— George Santayana

#changing #happier #hopelessly #interested #love

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#every #every day #freedom #must #occupied

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers. ↗

— Heinrich Schliemann

#aim #am #completely #customary #disagree

When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero. ↗

— Seann William Scott

#american pie #clockwork #films #genre #get

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#between #both #cannot #caused #change

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#difficult #difficult thing #doing #ever #his

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#i #movies #scary #scary movies #spielberg