As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians i...
BRIAN SELZNICK I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magi...
BRIAN SELZNICK I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to ...
BRIAN SELZNICK What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the...
BRIAN SELZNICK I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. ...
BRIAN SELZNICK Fairy tales only happen in movies."
-George Melies

from The Invention of Hugo Cabre...
BRIAN SELZNICK I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and ...
BRIAN SELZNICK Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more natural...
BRIAN SELZNICK Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I...
BRIAN SELZNICK Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whate...
BRIAN SELZNICK Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it ...
BRIAN SELZNICK Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffin...
BRIAN SELZNICK A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't...
BRIAN SELZNICK Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I'm not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I ...
BRIAN SELZNICK Tal vez sea esa la razón de que las máquinas rotas resulten tan tristes: ya no pueden cumplir con ...
BRIAN SELZNICK Si dejas de tener un propósito en la vida es como… como si te rompieras.
BRIAN SELZNICK «Si alguna vez te has preguntado de dónde vienen los sueños que tienes por la noche, mira a tu al...
BRIAN SELZNICK Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one ey...
BRIAN SELZNICK Si dejas de tener un propósito en la vida es como... como si te rompieras.
BRIAN SELZNICK Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering pi...
BRIAN SELZNICK Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason? … They are built to make you laugh...
BRIAN SELZNICK Then you know Prometheus was rescued in the end. His chains were broken, and he was finally set free...
BRIAN SELZNICK How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.
BRIAN SELZNICK Hugo learned that Prometheus had created humankind out of mud, and then stolen fire from the gods as...
BRIAN SELZNICK It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.
BRIAN SELZNICK The idea of going to the movies made Hugo remember something Father had once told him about going to...
BRIAN SELZNICK She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled wi...
BRIAN SELZNICK Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?" he asked Isabelle. "They are built ...
BRIAN SELZNICK Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.
BRIAN SELZNICK In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's f...
BRIAN SELZNICK Sometimes I come up here at night...just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is on...
BRIAN SELZNICK I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at pe...
BRIAN SELZNICK Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you rea...
BRIAN SELZNICK If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around....
BRIAN SELZNICK Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffin...
BRIAN SELZNICK Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.
BRIAN SELZNICK As I look out at you all gathered here I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in to...
BRIAN SELZNICK It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.
DAVID SELZNICK This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.
DAVID O. SELZNICK I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
IRENE MAYER SELZNICK Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbli...
DAVID O. SELZNICK There are only two classes - first class and no class.
DAVID O. SELZNICK They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.
DAVID O. SELZNICK I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I ge...
DAVID O. SELZNICK I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.
DAVID O. SELZNICK I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.
DAVID O. SELZNICK If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.
DAVID O. SELZNICK The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
DAVID O. SELZNICK The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its i...
DAVID O. SELZNICK I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.
DAVID O. SELZNICK I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.
DAVID O. SELZNICK Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.
DAVID O. SELZNICK At this rate, I'll live forever.
DAVID O. SELZNICK You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.
DAVID O. SELZNICK Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.
DAVID O. SELZNICK If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.
DAVID O. SELZNICK Thank God for your mother.
DAVID O. SELZNICK Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.
DAVID O. SELZNICK She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.
DAVID O. SELZNICK It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.
DAVID O. SELZNICK Darwin’s folly was barking up the wrong tree.
BRIAN Charles Darwin, and the evulation of a lie,
BRIAN A Nationalist is a defeated Republican.
BRIAN The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great dea...
BRIAN GREENE No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
BRIAN GREENE The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there i...
BRIAN GREENE Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection becaus...
BRIAN GREENE Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t...
BRIAN GREENE How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens ab...
BRIAN GREENE Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na...
BRIAN GREENE I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
BRIAN GREENE We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ...
BRIAN GREENE There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo...
BRIAN GREENE My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s...
BRIAN GREENE I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...
BRIAN GREENE The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans...
BRIAN GREENE The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...
BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
BRIAN MAY I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.
BRIAN MCKNIGHT Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case w...
BRIAN ENO The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.
BRIAN MAY Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and your...
BRIAN KOSLOW Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or ...
BRIAN GRAZER I get depressed when the sun is clouded over. It affects me.
BRIAN WILDSMITH I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
BRIAN CELIO Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.
BRIAN MAY I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE You never know how they're going to play out, but 'Pork and Beans' definitely had the sa...
BRIAN BELL We live in a strange bubble.
BRIAN MOLKO People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, sti...
BRIAN ENO I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to...
BRIAN DENNEHY Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Fac...
BRIAN ACTON The person with the most contacts does not win a prize. Number of friends, likes or fans is only mea...
BRIAN BASILICO Social networking can also have a negative effect on relationships when you only treat people as pot...
BRIAN BASILICO It's the transformation that drives me. I want to do it all and never want to be boxed into some...
BRIAN TEE I don't know a single Republican in Montana who would get in a fight in a bowling alley for John...
BRIAN SCHWEITZER I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, ther...
BRIAN ENO German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shud...
BRIAN LUMLEY Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both.
BRIAN CELIO It's surprising, but a lot of times we've had really talented running backs so once you get down to ...
BRIAN CARTER Hopefully we'll get a chance to make some plays around the end zone and we can get in there.
BRIAN CARTER It's a fascinating book about what it takes to be a scientist.
BRIAN CARTER It can't compare to Harmon. The lighting is so much better, the footing is better and the surface is...
BRIAN CARTER We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams li...
BRIAN CARTER I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearin...
BRIAN SKERRY I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Holl...
BRIAN ENO I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the...
BRIAN HUSKEY I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc...
BRIAN JACQUES The sight of burnt orange makes me puke.
BRIAN BOSWORTH Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability t...
BRIAN WILSON Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.
BRIAN TRACY Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
BRIAN TRACY Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future...
BRIAN TRACY Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really...
BRIAN TRACY I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active...
BRIAN TRACY My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
BRIAN PICKRELL I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the ...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've...
BRIAN WILSON Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
BRIAN TRACY You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.
BRIAN FERRY It was really tough as a kid going to a Braves game. It was a guaranteed loss. You're looking at...
BRIAN BAUMGARTNER I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on ...
BRIAN MOLKO I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can't make something that is alway...
BRIAN ENO I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if yo...
BRIAN GRAZER It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.
BRIAN MCKNIGHT We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
BRIAN COX Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highro...
BRIAN TRACY If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, activ...
BRIAN ENO It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
BRIAN TRACY Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really...
BRIAN TRACY Coming off that Pennington game, he had a little extra incentive against Hamilton. Taylor was ahead ...
BRIAN CARTER They all stayed together and they have a good chemistry. We saw it coming.
BRIAN CARTER Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.
BRIAN TRACY The Future belongs to the competent get good, get better, be the best !
BRIAN TRACY Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
BRIAN TRACY Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit ...
BRIAN JACQUES I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.

It is hard to forget,...
BRIAN ANDREAS Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
BRIAN TRACY You may not remember the time you let me go first.
Or the time you dropped back to tell me it ...
BRIAN ANDREAS We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the ...
BRIAN ANDREAS I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred word...
BRIAN ANDREAS If you want to thrive, you need to sow the seeds of self-development.
BRIAN BUFFINI A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants r...
BRIAN HWANG You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
BRIAN TRACY The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a wor...
BRIAN TRACY You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used thr...
BRIAN TRACY There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.
BRIAN HAYS If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it.
BRIAN HAYS It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in ...
BRIAN FRIEL The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and ...
BRIAN TRACY The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
BRIAN HWANG There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen fo...
BRIAN MOORE I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active....
BRIAN TRACY When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum,...
BRIAN TRACY Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing...
BRIAN TRACY Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out ...
BRIAN TRACY Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
BRIAN TRACY To punish drug takers is like a drunk striking the bleary face it sees in the mirror. Drugs will not...
BRIAN INGLIS Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better tha...
BRIAN TRACY Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
BRIAN TRACY Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
BRIAN TRACY We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
BRIAN TRACY No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be success...
BRIAN TRACY Successful people are simply those with success habits.
BRIAN TRACY Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you ...
BRIAN TRACY Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.
BRIAN MASTERS How much we like ourselves governs our performance.
BRIAN TRACY Trying is the internalization of the failure of omnipotence.
BRIAN O'SHAUGNESSY Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.
BRIAN MOORE Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.
BRIAN KLEMMER Hostage is a crucifying aloneness. It is a silent, screaming slide into the bowels of ultimate despa...
BRIAN KEENAN The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
BRIAN MOORE All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every resp...
BRIAN TRACY Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future...
BRIAN TRACY The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more lik...
BRIAN TRACY I'll always be a Backstreet Boy.
BRIAN LITTRELL I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.
BRIAN LITTRELL I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kid...
BRIAN LITTRELL The fact is, they have to do their job. I may not support the war, but I support them no matter what...
BRIAN LITTRELL I like being able to know what our fans are thinking about the material that is on the record, as we...
BRIAN LITTRELL I'm not famous, I'm just in the spotlight more than you.
BRIAN LITTRELL If you love someone put their name in a circle not a heart, because a heart can be broken, a circle ...
BRIAN LITTRELL For me as an artist, like, when I see somebody put out a greatest-hits record, they're either finish...
BRIAN LITTRELL I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backs...
BRIAN LITTRELL Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
BRIAN LITTRELL Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.
BRIAN CARTER I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any pr...
BRIAN CARTER Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, y...
BRIAN CARTER Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies.
BRIAN GRAHAM If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are...
BRIAN PHILCOX The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this i...
BRIAN TRACY The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
BRIAN MOORE Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are alway...
BRIAN TRACY The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
BRIAN TRACY Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
BRIAN TRACY We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
BRIAN TRACY