Top 34 Minchin Quotes
#1. The very fact that she never made an impudent answer seemed to Miss Minchin a kind of impudence in itself.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#2. As Tim Minchin put it in his song "If I Didn't Have You": Your love is one in a million; You couldn't buy it at any price. But of the 9.999 hundred thousand other loves, Statistically, some of them would be equally nice.
Randall Munroe
#3. Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story ... everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#4. Science adjusts its views based on what's observed
Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
Tim Minchin
#5. It's an incredibly exciting thing, this one meaningless life of yours
Tim Minchin
#7. If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position
Nick Minchin
#8. Understanding that you can't truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate.
Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually.
Tim Minchin
#9. A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
Tim Minchin
#10. It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has completely corrupted public policy making in most of the developed world. It confronts all the dubious claims that the warmists have put out there.
Nick Minchin
#11. You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.
Tim Minchin
#12. There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.
Tim Minchin
#13. Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts.
Tim Minchin
#14. If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.
Tim Minchin
#15. To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Tim Minchin
#16. We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
Tim Minchin
#17. Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.
Nick Minchin
#18. It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
Tim Minchin
#19. Burning a book is like burning a bra. After the adrenalin rush of the symbolic moment wears off, all you're left with is a pile of ashes and unsupported boobs.
Tim Minchin
#20. The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
Tim Minchin
#21. I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
Tim Minchin
#22. I don't know what it is about "magic happens"-stickers on cars but every time I see one I wanna get out my permanent marker and sneak over and write underneath it "so does cot death".
Tim Minchin
#23. I don't go in for ancient wisdom
I don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy
Tim Minchin
#24. Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic..
Tim Minchin
#25. [O]nce you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don't gotta believe nothin' you don't like.
Tim Minchin
#26. I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.
Nick Minchin
#27. Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
Tim Minchin
#28. The more you know, the harder you will find it to make up your mind, it doesn't really matter if you find it. You can't see which grass is greener, chances are it's neither and either way it's easier to see the difference when you're sitting on the fence.
Tim Minchin
#29. Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
Tim Minchin
#31. It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody
Nick Minchin
#32. I am no nihilist. I am not even a cynic. I am, actually, rather romantic. And here's my idea of romance: You will soon be dead. Life will sometimes seem long and tough and, god, it's tiring. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And then you'll be
old. And then you'll be dead.
Tim Minchin
#33. Respect people with less power then you. I don't care if you're the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
Tim Minchin
#34. Who's the world going to revolve around now?
Tim Minchin
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