Television writer Quotes

A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.

When you ask for patience, what you get is a line at the bank.

In other words, life gives you the people, places, and situations that are going to allow you to once and for all develop what it is you need.

Demons run when a good man goes to war.

Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost.

I believe that the laws of karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

I think that at the end of the day I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the New York Times crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.

The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer.

The nepotism there is the stuff of legend.

.. It just seems to be a place where people get paid to sit in a building.

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook.

" He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.

See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.

Loving myself exactly where I am is the only way to get where I'm going

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

I'm one of three brothers.

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys.

Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

If you don't like me, you don't like me.

You can call me anytime; I'll have an opinion on just about anything. I will also tell you if I shouldn't have an opinion on something - I just make television shows.

A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains.

We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.

All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized.

I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow.

It's when you shut down, go into denial, and try to start hiding things from yourself and others, that's when you lock in certain behaviors and attitudes that keep you stuck.

Estrogen is a powerful if vengeful hormone affecting a woman's fertility, moods, sleep patterns, appetite. Estrogen is the household heating oil of womanhood.

We say it’s a modern American Western - two gunslingers who ride into town, fight the bad guys, kiss the girl and ride out into the sunset again. And we were always talking from the very beginning that if you’re going to have cowboys, they need a trusty horse. —Eric Kripke on the decision to add the Impala

You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.

I had lunch with a chess champion the other day.

I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase our audience. But we can ennoble and enrich our viewers and ourselves in our journey through this good time, this precious time, this great and wonderful experience we call life.

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.

Demons run when a good man goes to war.

If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.

The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at it in a certain way.

I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

Fascinatingly confident, rude people are great.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list.

We're all stories, in the end.

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars.

Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy.

Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are.

Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.

If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed.

Here's the thing, you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self but in a guy you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.