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Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level. ↗

— Brad Bird

#animated #considered #designed #great #great time

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. ↗

— John Updike

#end #ends #heaven #held #ideal

Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats. ↗

— Brad Bird

#bureaucrats #differently #government #guys #middle-aged

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes. ↗

— Brad Bird

#archetypes #base #family #i #i tried

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated. ↗

— Brad Bird

#audiences #complicated #doomed #films #hope

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness? ↗

— Artur Davis

#ask #compassion #democrats #does #duty

John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids. ↗

— Artur Davis

#america #asked #asks #bill #could

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require. ↗

— Artur Davis

#going #happens #mitt #mitt romney #next

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield. ↗

— Jim Davis

#children #comic #comic strip #english #garfield

Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will. ↗

— Artur Davis

#being #cleaning #country #executive #experience