Fred Gwynne My Cousin Vinny Quotes

#1. To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something [the Reality] beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of Pure Awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#2. I sometimes wonder if the world is run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who mean it.

Mark Twain

#3. But those start-up founders don't hide their failures; to the contrary, they flaunt them - blogging about them, gathering to talk about them at conferences like FailCon.

Jessica Bennett

#4. Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

Paul Bloom

#5. I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

Claes Oldenburg

#6. Sensible people reinvent themselves every ten years.

Jeff Goins

#7. Whether the woman shares the man's passion or not, whether she is willing or unwilling to satisfy it, she always repulses him and defends herself, though not always with the same vigour, and therefore not always with the same success.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau