Top 100 Macfarlane Quotes
#1. 'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.
Matt Groening
#2. Sir Peter Medawar, an eminent British biologist who received a Nobel Prize the same year as Macfarlane Burnet, defined a virus as a piece of bad news wrapped up in a protein.
David Quammen
#3. Yes, believe me I am black and blue. Plus I just finished a Seth MacFarlane movie called Ted and I can't believe the cast I got to work with there [Mila Kunis, Mark Wahlberg]. I feel like I am winning some kind of contest to trick people into working with me.
Joel McHale
#4. Lots of people like Seth MacFarlane. Many other people like watching the Oscars. But nobody likes both, not even Seth MacFarlane, who has no idea what the Oscars are.
Rob Sheffield
#5. We are adept, if occasionally embarrassed, at saying what we make of places - but we are far less good at saying what places make of us ...
Robert Macfarlane
#6. I'm the guy in the crowd making fun of the hero's shirt.
Seth MacFarlane
#7. There was no joke I could make that was too offensive. I can actually remember at least one time where my mother told me something that, I was like, 'whoa!'
Seth MacFarlane
#8. I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future, I hope to create some thoughtful, sci-fi drama.
Seth MacFarlane
#9. If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.
Ian Macfarlane
#10. It did matter to get out of bed. There were webs to weave. Strings to grasp. Packages to deliver. Conversations to start. Thoughts to be expressed. Sams to slam into. Oceans to swim. And sad little men hiding in electrical sockets, waiting to be born of the human imagination.
Bud Macfarlane Jr.
#11. The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
Seth MacFarlane
#12. It felt at that moment unarguable that a horizon line might exert as potent or pull upon the mind as a mountain's summit.
Robert Macfarlane
#13. If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'
Seth MacFarlane
#14. I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.
Seth MacFarlane
#15. For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.
Robert Macfarlane
#16. Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.
Seth MacFarlane
#17. There are times when words are extra, like raindrops on drenched grass. There are times for holding. He held her ...
Bud Macfarlane Jr.
#18. 'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.
Seth MacFarlane
#19. If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
Seth MacFarlane
#20. You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.
Seth MacFarlane
#22. Before you become a writer you must first become a reader. Every hour spent reading is an hour spent learning to write;
Robert Macfarlane
#23. I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.
Seth MacFarlane
#25. Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
Seth MacFarlane
#26. You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.
Seth MacFarlane
#28. I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.
Penn Jillette
#29. A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.
Ian Macfarlane
#30. The success of 'The Simpsons' really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.
Seth MacFarlane
#31. People do that on Facebook and it's the dumbest thing in the world. I don't care what your dinner looks like. Stop cluttering up the Internet with pictures of your dinner.
Seth MacFarlane
#32. We are fallen mostly into pieces but the wild returns us to ourselves
Robert Macfarlane
#33. I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.
Seth MacFarlane
#34. I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show that takes place inside a prison. Do the prisoners have to sign release forms? Or do they have to be on it whether they like it or not?
Seth MacFarlane
#35. Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
Robert Macfarlane
#36. The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.
Seth MacFarlane
#37. Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.
Seth MacFarlane
#38. The independence of a nation springs from the independent spirit of its citizens
Alan Macfarlane
#39. Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.
Seth MacFarlane
#40. The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.
Seth MacFarlane
#41. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.
Seth MacFarlane
#43. The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by its conspicuousness, serves as a guide in the direction of one's course.
Robert Macfarlane
#44. Placeless events are inconceivable, in that everything that happens must happen somewhere, and so history issues from geography in the same way that water issues from a spring: unpredictably but site-specifically.
Robert Macfarlane
#45. I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs ... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
#46. There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.
Seth MacFarlane
#47. There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.
Seth MacFarlane
#48. When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.
Ian Macfarlane
#49. The instinct and the body (the felt smoothness of pebbles, the seen grain of light) must know in ways that the conscious mind cannot.
Robert Macfarlane
#50. I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.
Robert Macfarlane
#51. If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'.
Seth MacFarlane
#52. The highest goal is not distinctions, but synthesis and harmony.
Alan Macfarlane
#53. I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.
Seth MacFarlane
#54. I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.
Seth MacFarlane
#55. Felt pressure, sensed texture and perceived space can work upon the body and so too upon the mind, altering the textures and inclinations of thought.
Robert Macfarlane
#56. Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.
Seth MacFarlane
#57. I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.
Seth MacFarlane
#58. These words: migrant birds, arriving from distant places with story and metaphor caught in their feathers;
Robert Macfarlane
#59. We don't come fresh to even the most inaccessible of landscapes.
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We carry expectations and to an extent make what we meet conform to those expectations.
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Robert Macfarlane
#60. But Longinus and his intellectual descendants had been concerned with the Sublime as a literary effect: how language, not landscape, could be lofty, grand or inspiring.
Robert Macfarlane
#61. There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.'
Seth MacFarlane
#62. I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
Rachael MacFarlane
#63. 'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.
Seth MacFarlane
#67. [With R-rated movie] you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it harder. You actually have to think about it, as opposed to just taking for granted that you're not going to be able to do this.
Seth MacFarlane
#68. Sarah Palin is very pro-life of course, unless the life is that of an Iraqi civilian or a wolf running frantically from a roaring helicopter while being strafed with ribbons of automatic weapons fire.
Seth MacFarlane
#69. Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a sceptical attitude towards intervention in those markets unless there is a clearly defined economic rationale for it.
Ian Macfarlane
#70. A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape.
Robert Macfarlane
#71. Now it's fantastic, this is a medium that adults should be able to enjoy, it's not just for our kids. I feel like now with Adult Swim and all these different outlets for adults to enjoy animation, it's huge. I love being a part of it, absolutely love it.
Rachael MacFarlane
#72. I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.
Seth MacFarlane
#73. I felt a sensation of candour and amplitude, of the body and mind opened up, of thought diffusing at the body's edges rather than ending at the skin.
Robert Macfarlane
#74. Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college.
Seth MacFarlane
#75. Lift is created by the onwards rush of life over the curved wing of the soul.
Robert Macfarlane
#76. Looking from afar - from present to past, from exile to homeland, from island back to mainland, mountain-top at lowland - results notin vision's diffusion but in its sharpening; not in memory's dispersal but in it's plenishment.
Robert Macfarlane
#77. I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced ... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the problem of poliomyelitis and I hope that future developments will prove me wrong ... No means of controlling poliomyelitis is at present visible.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
#78. The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped me. It seemed to explain almost everything, and I applied it to everything.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
#79. Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition.
Seth MacFarlane
#80. Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.
Seth MacFarlane
#81. The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
Seth MacFarlane
#82. We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.
Seth MacFarlane
#83. When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.
Seth MacFarlane
#84. Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
#85. Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.
Seth MacFarlane
#86. I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.
Seth MacFarlane
#87. Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.
Seth MacFarlane
#88. There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind seizes before the intelligence.
Alan Macfarlane
#89. Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
#90. I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.
Rachael MacFarlane
#91. Perceive no opposition between precision and mystery, or between naming and not-knowing.
Robert Macfarlane
#92. Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.
Robert Macfarlane
#93. If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.
Seth MacFarlane
#94. The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Seth MacFarlane
#95. With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
Seth MacFarlane
#96. For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.
Ian Macfarlane
#97. I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
Seth MacFarlane
#98. To advance science is highly honourable, and I believe the institution of the Nobel Prizes has done much to raise the prestige of scientific discovery.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
#99. I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when 'The Simpsons' premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn't had prime time animations since 'The Flintstones.'
Rachael MacFarlane
#100. This is life, the one you get so go and have a ball, because the world don't move, to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for you, may not be right for some. You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have my opening statement..sit ubu sit. Good dog.
Seth MacFarlane
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