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

• The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Movie
  • Eyes
  • Down

• 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

• I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Coffee

• 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

• I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology.

  

  Kerry Bishe
  • Home
  • Technology

• I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

  

  Alan Zweibel
  • People
  • Long
  • Writing

• 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

• You practice with wet balls all the time.

  

  Ed Cunningham
  • Practice
  • Balls

• The cello looks like a woman to me. And, you know, the curves. And so I am in a way, and it's funny to admit this, I am sexually attracted to the cello, the curves really get me. So as I watched him play, you know, Yo Yo Ma is sort of making love to a beautiful woman.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Play
  • Looks
  • Curves

• I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Hope
  • Possession
  • Lows

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

  

  Bill Griffith