“It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.”
-Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses
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“But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter.”
-Joanna Franklin Bell
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
―Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
“In a ravine she lived, and took shape as a spider of monstrous form, weaving her black webs in a cleft of the mountains. There she sucked up all light that she could find, and spun it forth again in dark nets of strangling gloom, until no light more could come to her abode; and she was famished.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
“I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you’ve lost human scale.”
-Harrison Ford
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
-Vincent van Gogh
“I admire your willingness to put artistic integrity over marketability.”
-Hobbes, Calvin & Hobbes
“Much have I fared, much have I found,
Much have I got of the gods:
What shall live of mankind when at last there comes
The mighty winter to men?”
-The Ballad of Vafthruthnir
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” – H.P. Lovecraft
“Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.”
-Aesop
“Under the earth I go,
On the oak-leaf I stand,
I ride on the filly that never was foaled
And I carry the dead in my hand.”
-Hamish Henderson
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
-Richard Puz
“The fact that I, myself, do not understand the meaning of my paintings at the time that I am painting them does not mean that they have no meaning.” – Salvador Dali
“Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.”
-Leonard Cohen
“This is how it happened… This is how the Batman died.”
-Commissioner James Gordon
“Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.”
-Mark Amidon
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
-Walt Disney
“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.” – Sir Francis Drake
“You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is…
One of the things that brought me great personal delight playing through Ni no…
“I would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.”
― Hayao Miyazaki
Rage Mage Reviews! Rather than getting a true Final Fantasy, drunken has-been…
Today, despite my railings against the modern world, I set foot into the unknown waters of next-gen console gaming.
“Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways – food and cheer above hoarded gold – it would be a merrier world.”
-Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit (1977)
