Nelson Goodman Quotes
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
-
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
-
Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
-
It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
-
Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
-
We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.
-
In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
-
When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.
-
There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
-
OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
-
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
-
I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
-
You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
-
I always had confidence in my game.
-
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
-
It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
-
Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.
-
I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
-
My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
-
It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.
-
I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
-
I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
-
Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.
-
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
