Quotes about t
time past history
What is past is prologue. William Shakespeare
two bulls saws
To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of the funniest movies I ever saw. Louis C. K.
television notes placating
There's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work.
thinking dumb done
If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.
thinking trying
I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.
trying pushing envelopes
Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.
tv-shows two people
There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.
two car stuff
Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.
thinking talking laughing
Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.
tourists prisoner perversion
You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.
travel useless-things bores-you
I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
thinking evil laughing
There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.
thinking long laughing
There's nowhere I won't go. As long as it's horribly, horribly true and/or wrong.
teacher art children
The art of Montessori, which simply means finding the best way to help the child himself become what he was meant to become from the first moment of conception, is an art that joins home and school. That means parent and teacher supporting one another in their responsibility to the life of the child. Maria Montessori
trying firsts colour
First the colours. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try. Markus Zusak
thinking people slaughterhouse-five
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes. Kurt Vonnegut
tuxedos knows invited
Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo
thinking missing gears
Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.
two political television
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
thinking make-you-think drug
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
twenties hiroshima scientific-truth
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.
thinking wake-up idiot
Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?
teenage talking vanity
If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.
trying littles god-life
My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
thinking people littles
A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.
teacher book writing
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book with good ideas or that book with good ideas until that's where we get our ideas. We don't think them; we read them in books. I like Utopian talk, speculation about what our planet should be, anger about what our planet is. I think writers are the most important members of society, not just potentially but actually. Good writers must have and stand by their own ideas.
teaching men hands
The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
time nice smart
I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.
thinking past progress
We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.
technology electronics live-by
Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.
thinking exaggeration-is force
By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration. Jose Ortega y Gasset
team winning player
I don't get a big charge out of being the leading scorer. The object of competing is winning. I just try to do what has to be done for us to win. That might be anything at the time - defense, rebounding, passing. I get great satisfaction out of being a team player. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
tattoo jesus remember-where-you-came
I got this Jesus tattoo on my wrist when I was 18 because I know that it's always going to be a part of me. When I'm playing, it's staring right back at me, saying, 'Remember where you came from.' Katy Perry