Sennett Quotes

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability. — Richard Sennett

Beloved King of Comedy. — Mack Sennett

ISBN 978-0-300-11633-5 — Richard Sennett

Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground. — Cormac McCarthy

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher. — Joan Cusack

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do. — Gloria Swanson

Some vampires wouldn't react if you shoved a rosary down their pants, though I wouldn't recommend testing the theory. — Molly Harper

I kissed her like she was my Annabel Lee, and in some ways, in some places in my heart, I think that I'm kissing her still. — Seanan McGuire

If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios. — Robert Benchley

God touched him." Pigpen points one finger in the air. "And with that one touch, he dislocates Jacobs hip. One touch and it was over. — Katie McGarry

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination. — Richard Sennett

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards. — Richard Sennett

If nothing changes then nothing changes. — C.P. Sennett

Don't confuse efforts with results.... — C.P. Sennett

Electronic communication is one means by which the very idea of public life has been put to an end. — Richard Sennett

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake. — Richard Sennett

But still he keeps working with a will; that's the craftsman in him. (pg-265) — Richard Sennett

You can't understand how wine is made simply by drinking lots of it. — Richard Sennett

We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never. — Mack Sennett

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity. — George Sarton

The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that. — Mack Sennett

We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities. — George W. Sears

The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone — Richard Sennett

The single most pressing earthly obligation of every medieval artisan was the establishment of a good personal reputation.11 — Richard Sennett

Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations. — Adam Driver

The carpenter, lab technician, and conductor are all craftsmen because they are dedicated to good work for its own sake. — Richard Sennett

I can tell you have a good heart ... " I sighed, opening the door to the outside." ... because the minute I met you, I wanted to fight for it. — Rachel Van Dyken

Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay. — Kurt Vonnegut

Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority. — Mack Sennett

To the absolutist in every craftsman, each imperfection is a failure; to the practitioner, obsession with perfection seems a perception for failure. — Richard Sennett

A lot of these women had to overcome cultural conditioning against hurting other people, or even confronting anyone physically. — Carrie Vaughn

You may lose your path, but you must never lose your hope, because hope is the path to all the paths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line. — Robert Henri

Stress can make people say things they don't mean, though. That's why you have to relax. — Hester Browne