Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demetri Martin

I care about politics, but I have a tough time making comedy out of it. I was so happy to have a chance to be on The Daily Show, and I think Jon Stewart's so funny... but mostly in my own comedy, I care about less relevant things.

Demetri Martin

I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.

Demetri Martin

Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave.

Demetri Martin

I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.

Demetri Martin

I think bears and worms aren't very similar... until you think of gummy.

Demetri Martin

I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do it if you didn't have something that clicked right away.

Demetri Martin

The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.

Demetri Martin

I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.

Dean Koontz

If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

Dean Koontz

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

Dean Koontz

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Dean Koontz

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

Dean Koontz

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

Dean Koontz

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

Dean Koontz

What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s.

Dean Koontz

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Dean Koontz

I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose.

Dean Koontz

There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if one of those chains of molecules isn't there, and you start looking at the complexity of life and the mystery of life, and then start thinking about things like the twenty universal constants, that if any one of them from Plank's minimum to the mass of a proton, if one of them is the tiniest bit off, there would be no life or possibility of it in the universe.

Daniel Gilbert

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

Daniel Gilbert

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

Daniel Gilbert

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

Daniel Gilbert

I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.

Daniel Gilbert

We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.

Daniel Gilbert

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.

Daniel H. Pink

If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

Daniel H. Pink

It's nothing short of a whole new brain... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life.

Daniel Goleman

Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

Daniel Goleman

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

Daniel Goleman

Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.

Daniel Goleman

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

Daniel Handler

Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

Daniel Handler

...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

Daniel Handler

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.