Guilds Quotes - Page 2

• The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

  Walter Gropius

  Artist, Class, Together

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• The only thing you can do to make me that angry is to lie with another man" ~ Raphael, Guild Hunter, Nalini Singh

  Nalini Singh

  Lying, Men, Hunters

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• Guild doesn't like me." "That's true." "He doesn't like you, ether." "That is mystifying.

  Derek Landy

  Like You, Like Me

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• I’ll spend my life training just for the moment I have my chance at you. I’ll wait until you think I’ve forgotten today. I’ll wait until you think it was just a dumb guild rat’s threat. After I’m a master, you’ll jump at shadows for a while. But after you jump a dozen times and I’m not there, you won’t jump just once, and that’s when I’ll be there. I don’t care if you kill me at the same time. I’ll trade my life for yours.

  Brent Weeks

  Thinking, Waiting, Dumb

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• If this is death, Guild Hunter,he thought to his mortal as angelfire scored through his bones and touched his heart, then I will see you on the other side.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Sides, Hunters

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.316, Penguin

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• I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half." "Third." "Half." "Thirty-five percent." Jim's voice hardened. "Half." The phone went silent as my former Guild partner mulled it over. "Okay, forty." I hung up.(...) The phone rang. I let it ring twice before I picked it up. "Fine." Jim's voice had a hint of a snarl in it. "Half.

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Phones, Half

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• Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

  Janet Morris

  Jealousy, Discipline, Excellence

  Janet Morris (1986). “Beyond Sanctuary”, Ace Books

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• Ya called Fargo yet?” “No, I’ve been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon’s soul. Being evil is a full-time job.

  Jana Oliver

  Jobs, Evil, Soul

  Jana Oliver (2011). “Soul Thief: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.260, Macmillan

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• If you are a guild, take care of your friends. That is all I have to say.

  Hiro Mashima

  Care, Take Care, Ifs

  "Fairy Tail". Manga series by Hiro Mashima, Chapter 283, December 15, 2006 - October 17, 2013.

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• Basil..discovered a guild of abortionists, or sagae, that were doing a booming trade in Caesarea, and the surrounding environs. They provided herbal potions, pessaries, and even surgical remedies for women who wished to avoid child-bearing. The bodies of the children were then harvested and sold to cosmetologists in Egypt, who used the collagen for the manufacture of various beauty creams.

  Grant George

  Children, Egypt, Pro Life

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• For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of the wind, the compass, the rudder, and fair fellowship.

  Beryl Markham

  Wind, Law, Understanding

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.

  Benito Mussolini

  Real, Giving, Unity

  Benito Mussolini (1935). “Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions”

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• ...Registering guns is like sending a list of your household valuables to a burglars' guild. Why invite - guarantee - a visit.?

  Kenneth W. Royce

  Gun, Guarantees, Lists

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• There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and the more activist Writer's Guild. The studios were fairly upset that their group wasn't effective, and they sought to punish the other union by labeling them as Communists.

  Jay Roach

  War, Two, Upset

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I got married three days after graduation, and the first thing I did what I was expected to do which was to work on a small newspaper. So we were in Chicago where my husband worked for the Chicago Sun-Times and we were having dinner with his editor and he said 'So what are you 'gonna do honey?' and I said 'I'm going to work on a newspaper', and he said 'I don't think so", because Newspaper Guild regulations said that I couldn't work on the same newspaper as my husband.

  Madeleine Albright

  Husband, Thinking, Editors

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something is interesting, it forces you to ask yourself, "Well, why is this interesting?"

  Paul Bloom

  Writing, Interesting, Trying

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to "protect their turf" and to resist challenge.

  Noam Chomsky

  Challenges, Natural, Protect

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer.

  Harold Ramis

  Impact, Giving, Credit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I hosted the Producer's Guild Awards, and it went well, and I was very happy in the moment, and it was a fun night. But I wake up the next day like someone who did crack the night before and told off the world, and I'm ashamed of the whole idea that anyone should listen to me, or the idea that I need that much approval.

  Judd Apatow

  Fun, Night, Next Day

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's been a major problem over the years. But obviously, to the young writer that's unfair and it's discriminatory, and it can be very hurtful to one's career.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• However much pains may be taken to combine the soldier and the citizen in one and the same individual, whatever may be done to nationalize wars, never will it be possible to do away with the professionalism of the business; and if that cannot be done, then those who belong to it will always look upon themselves as a kind of guild, in the regulations, laws, and customs in which the "Spirit of War" finds its expression. It would be very wrong to look down upon this corporate spirit, or esprit de corps, which may and should exist more or less in every Army.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Pain, War, Taken

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• As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped. Such rites made belonging to the guild or corporation more precious to those who were accepted, and survived.

  Isaac Asimov

  Artist, Sea, Cities

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• You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

  Paul Newman

  Citizens, Cards, Actors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Giving, World

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.61, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights has always made me feel that I am returning as much to the theatre as I withdraw. Because only playwrights can ensure the well-being of playwrights. No one else will do it for us.

  Peter Stone

  Theatre, Crafts, Made

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