Black Hermit Quotes

#1. To how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called [Eupatridas Gk.], i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection.

Marcus Aurelius

#2. It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#3. When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.

Donald Miller

#4. When you are describing,
A shape, or sound, or tint;
Don't state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things,
With a sort of mental squint.

Lewis Carroll

#5. It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

Adam Driver

#6. I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.

Nana Visitor

#7. I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.

Paul Rudd

#8. Nothing could appear to be more human than refusing to believe extinction possible so long as you were encircled by luscious eggplants and ripe tomatoes[..]

Philip Roth

#9. I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You're now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective.

Adrian Younge

#10. As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can ...

Thomas Carlyle

#11. The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings. Winston Churchill (1901)

Ian Kershaw

#12. Further north, I met a Siberian hermit who lived in the foothills of the Ural Mountains. His life's passion was wrestling black bears ... in the nude (him not the bears). He did not know why he did it. All the hermit knew was that if he stopped wrestling bears, he would die.

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#13. You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.

Zach Galifianakis

#14. I can't help but wonder...if it's such a big deal for a middle-aged white guy to feel important...What happens when he doesn't?

Andrea Portes

#15. A kitchen that's too clean has no soul. No flavor.

Deborah Smith

#16. When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

Paula Poundstone