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Roger Ebert QUOTES

Roger Ebert QUOTES

1 " A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room. "

― Roger Ebert , Life Itself

2 " Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job. "

― Roger Ebert

3 " An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it. "

― Roger Ebert , I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

4 " Dear Bill (O'Reilly)...I am concerned that you have been losing touch with reality recently. Did you really say you are more powerful than any politician?

That reminds me of the famous story about Squeaky the Chicago Mouse. It seems that Squeaky was floating on his back along the Chicago River one day. Approaching the Michigan Avenue lift bridge, he called out: Raise the bridge! I have an erection! "

― Roger Ebert

5 " Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience. "

― Roger Ebert

6 " Never marry someone who doesn’t love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you. "

― Roger Ebert

7 " Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will. "

― Roger Ebert

8 " We laugh, that we may not cry. "

― Roger Ebert

9 " I may appear to suffer from some sort of compulsive repetition syndrome, but these rituals are important to me. I have many places where I sit and think, “I have been here before, I am here now, and I will be here again.” Sometimes, lost in reverie, I remember myself approaching across the same green, or down the same footpath, in 1962 or 1983, or many other times. Sometimes Chaz comes along on my rituals, but just as often I go alone. Sometimes Chaz will say she’s going shopping, or visiting a friend, or just staying in the room and reading in bed. “Why don’t you go and touch your bases?” she’ll ask me. I know she sympathizes. These secret visits are a way for me to measure the wheel of the years and my passage through life. Sometimes on this voyage through life we need to sit on the deck and regard the waves. "

― Roger Ebert , Life Itself

10 " To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers. That a game can aspire to artistic importance as a visual experience, I accept. But for most gamers, video games represent a loss of those precious hours we have available to make ourselves more cultured, civilized and empathetic. "

― Roger Ebert

11 " Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it? "

― Roger Ebert

12 " We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars. "

― Roger Ebert

13 " When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I enjoy and am expert at, deliberate thought falls aside and it is all just THERE. I think of the next word no more than the composer thinks of the next note. "

― Roger Ebert , Life Itself

14 " I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. "

― Roger Ebert

15 " I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear "

― Roger Ebert

16 " A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man is to a forest, able to find every tree, but each one coming as a surprise. "

― Roger Ebert

17 " One, don’t wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it’s going? "

― Roger Ebert , Life Itself

18 " You can't say it wasn't interesting. "

― Roger Ebert , Life Itself

19 " Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. "

― Roger Ebert

20 " So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life. "

― Roger Ebert