Quotes By Famous Authors: [G]
I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. ...
Look here, I have succeeded at last in fetching some gold from the sun.{After his banker questioned the value of investigating gold in the Fraunhofer ...
Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
In my mid-20s, I was directing episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock' and 'Peter Gunn.' I was pretty much on course and - as I sometimes joke ...
Life is about being nice to people and believing in yourself..
The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.
I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.
It is certainly true that you can't judge a book by its cover, nor can you judge a book by its first chapter - even ...
You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.
Always assume your assailant is armed (even if you can't see a weapon, or have disarmed them of one), always assume they are as good ...
You will never ever be backed into a corner of desperation as long as you trust and believe that "God's Got It.
I chose this path for solitude, not realizing the the hobo life is a very sociable lifestyle...
I'm interested in playing lots of different complex women.
A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or ...
Silver is the best material we have. And silver has this wonderful shine like moonlight ... a light taken straight from a Danish summer's night. ...
We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic ...
Dont fail to plan,untill you plan to fail
As an idle mind either recalls its past or worries about its future, this Mr. Patil had sat indulged in his past. How beautiful his ...
Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take ...
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
I am pressed, but not broken. I am confused, but not despairing. I am hunted by the enemy but not abandoned by God. I have ...
He did, however, know another feeling, one that had been taught to him by man: duty-- which we, who hardly know the meaning of the ...
Violence, of course, is generally associated with frankly totalitarian forms of anti-political utopianism like Communism, but the Second World War shows that liberal universalists are ...
You should think before you speak, words hurt.
Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.
My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they actually are inferior ...
Respect the colony as an organism rather than a mechanism with interchangeable parts.
Memory is that element in our consciousness that connects the past with the present. If we had no memory, there would be only one moment ...
I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should ...
Fate, the monstrous scene-shifter, was setting the stage for the death of Uncle Fred, the elderly man.
I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those ...
We tend to become the decisions we make. The more we choose something, the more we become that something. We are all in the process ...
It has seemed to me that if I had the genius to found the jet propulsion field in the US, and found a multimillion dollar ...
During her life she was in Rivera's shadow. She was framed as the 'Wife of the Master Mural Painter [who] Gleefully Dabbles in Works of ...
If skeptic can weakly force E, then he can force E.
The sunrise, of course, doesn't care if we watch it or not.It will keep on being beautifuleven if no one bothers to look at it.
Power is the ability to make change.
Dee Henning. I understand your focus, your drive to succeed, really I do, but I gotta wonder how you can even call it success when ...
Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through.
Sometimes you have to do a role that might not be the most interesting, but it will set you up for doing roles that you ...
When I saw that Moses' version of the Genesis of the world did not fit sufficiently in many ways with Aristotle and the rest of ...
For much of my life, I existed in a condition of regret, a regret that was contemporaneous with experience, and which sometimes preceded experience.
Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been ...
. . . I spent much of my youth wondering about the verticality of my own biological progenitors. So that when I reached the age ...
Sick of writers. Sick of creeds. Now I reverence. Only deeds.
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day ...
In a mucked up lovely river, I cast my little fly. I look at that river and smell it And it makes me want to ...
I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record.
I have two favorites: Reading Kierkegaard while listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto 9 in E Flat Major, and reading early Bazooka Joe comics in Hebrew.
You can't cure ignorance based solely on the basis of a valid argument...