Aj Ayer Quotes

Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity. ~ James A. Haught

The worst pressure is the pressure I put on myself. ~ David Ayer

A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture. ~ David Ayer

I ended up comparing any girl I was ever with to you. I was never going to find you in any of them was I, AJ? Because there will never be another you. ~ Jaimie Roberts

The trouble with education is,' said Jimmy cheerfully, 'that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to reread it later. There's more sense in books, Cicily, than you'd really believe. Though, of course, they don't teach you anything vital that you can't learn for yourself. ~ Margaret Ayer Barnes

As I bounced her on my knee, AJ undid the first three buttons on his shirt and ripped off his tie. "I'm ready to dance."
"You've been dancing the entire time we haven't been on stage." I replied.
"No, I mean I really want to dance."
"Ugh," I groaned. "You mean that mexican shit. ~ Katie Ashley

Resisted temptations become lost opportunities ... ~ Margaret Ayer Barnes

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper. ~ David Ayer

That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people. ~ David Ayer

'Fury' whetted my appetite for a bigger canvas and this idea of world creation. You can do amazing things as a filmmaker if you have the proper tools, and those are time and money. ~ David Ayer

[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic. ~ David Ayer

The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later. ~ Margaret Ayer Barnes

I'm a big fan of Italian neo-realism and all of that stuff. ~ David Ayer

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated. ~ David Ayer

'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything. ~ David Ayer

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express. ~ A.J. Ayer

As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes. ~ David Ayer

Jessica loved Luke. Jillian loved AJ. ~ Jewel E. Ann

Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A.J. Ayer. ~ Ernest Gellner

...the fact that a conclusion does not follow from its putative premise is not sufficient to show that it is false. ~ A.J. Ayer

Actors are like kids, they need to play a little bit. And that's the nature of their job, they need to shake off some energy and then you as the director get them back on track. When you do loosen up the reins, you get some amazing things, but you have to wring out the performances for every last good drop. ~ David Ayer

Unfortunately, I am only myself. I am scared and alone and unsure, but I am practicing. I am scared and alone and unsure, but that doesn't mean I always will be.

Like AJ repeating words, I can repeat being me, until I start to believe it. ~ Lisa Burstein

Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements. ~ David Ayer

The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies. ~ A.J. Ayer

I… that took a lot of guts, what you did today."
"Can't really pretend it didn't happen anymore, right?" And being a better person doesn't mean hiding from or lying about who I used to be.
"So much of what you talked about is shit that happens in school very day, Aria. The gossip, the text messages, the comments. People do it all the time. Everyone does it. I've done it. Doesn't make it okay but… I can see how it spiralled out of control like that."
I shrug. "I figured, if my story makes people stop and think about what their words could do to a person, then I should tell it right?"
"Right." He nods slowly, his eyes roaming my face.
"I miss you," I don't mean to say it aloud, but it slips out anyway.
He offers me a sad smile. "I miss you, too, AJ. ~ K.A. Tucker

You a fan of the show?" AJ asked. "Oh, yeah, I adored it - well, until the whole sixth season and Billith. ~ Katie Ashley

It is an undoubted truth that the neck and throat of a highbred woman are incomparably more beautiful than in the woman of lower origin. Blood will tell; there is no disputing it. ~ Harriet Hubbard Ayer

It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble. ~ Margaret Ayer Barnes

I think nothing has been filmed as much as World War II. ~ David Ayer

I don't really have control over my path - only the Lord does - but I do have control over my decisions. ~ AJ Michalka

Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all. Probably because I'm a writer, I'm not telling them what to do. I just provide them with as much as I can. ~ David Ayer

When you put a movie together, you're continually screening it for yourself and you're screening it for other people. It's like a video game power meter. When the power bar starts going down, you've gotta look at what's going on. ~ David Ayer

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie. ~ David Ayer

To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone. ~ A.J. Ayer

I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World War II and retired as officers. One fought in the Pacific and one fought in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and hearing the stories, but the stories I heard weren't kind of the whole "Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!" They were about the personal price and the emotional price. ~ David Ayer

There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person. ~ Margaret Ayer Barnes

Talent is not sexually transmitted. ~ AJ Lee

Virginia screamed, grabbing for the door handle and nearly throwing herself from the moving car.
James swerved to the side of the road, slamming on the brakes before she killed herself trying to escape. As it was, she flung herself from the car, falling to her knees and scrambling to her feet. Then she ran. Took off like a bolt until she rounded the bend and disappeared from view.
'Way to go, slick,' AJ said snarkily, climbing into the front seat. 'You ran her off. ~ Brandi Salazar

I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking. ~ David Ayer

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future. ~ A.J. Ayer

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself. ~ David Ayer

A lot of my favourite American writers are from the 1930s to the 60s. James Agee, Joseph Mitchell, AJ Liebling, Meyer Berger: they relied on their intuitions, didn't follow any who-what-where rules of reporting, frequently portrayed a contrary viewpoint. They all over-identified with their subjects. There's never the slightest pretence of objectivity. ~ Luc Sante

Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks. ~ David Ayer

Hey Guys, I met a wonderful astrologer and I feel he is very helpful to me. Checkout his profile at panditdesraj.com ~ AJ

Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses. ~ Joel Robuchon

'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career. ~ David Ayer

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better. ~ David Ayer

Riches make cowards of us ... ~ Margaret Ayer Barnes

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"? ~ Margaret Ayer Barnes