Bill Griffith Quotes

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

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• I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Love
  • Guy
  • Lost

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• Human nature is above all things lazy.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Nature
  • Lazy
  • Human Nature

• From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Work
  • English
  • Learn

• Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Truth
  • History
  • Story

• The simple things in life make me very happy.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Simple

• One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Long
  • Said
  • Blow

• Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Real
  • Money
  • Job

• After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Religious

• Far from being the father of jihad, Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • Father
  • Lost

• We exhaust ourselves worrying about our health. We're obsessed with it. We worry about our health and when we worry about our health, guess what? We're not fucking healthy! We're so worried about our health that we are now the fattest group of fucks on the planet Earth! 'Should I eat this or should I eat this? Well, I'll have to eat both!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Earth
  • Health
  • Worry

• I had this dream to be a rapper when I was younger.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Dream

• What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

  

  David Suzuki
  • Live
  • Children
  • Happy

• How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.

  

  Christopher Meloni

• I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance.

  

  James Gleick
  • History
  • Cool
  • Worry

• The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

  

  Adam Shankman
  • Life
  • Dance

• I guess Tom Cruise - everything he does, everything he touches, is kind of a success.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Success

• I will fight with all my power against the divisions that undermine us and which are tearing us apart.

  

  Emmanuel Macron
  • Power

• You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!

  

  Walt Disney
  • Style
  • Flying
  • Buzz

• If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • I Think
  • I Hope
  • Favor

• Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Giving
  • Singing
  • Beauty

• Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

  

  Bill Griffith