Philip K. Dick Quotes

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• I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Time
  • Know
  • New

• I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Long
  • Kids

• Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Marriage
  • Moral
  • Morality

• Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Yourself

• Time stays, we go.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Go
  • Stays

• In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Play
  • Mom
  • Hollywood

• That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Men
  • Family
  • Guy

• You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Today
  • Political
  • Service

• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Think

• The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Community
  • Human

• I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Job
  • House
  • Leadership

• I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Great
  • Logic
  • Software

• Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Marriage

• The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • People
  • Best
  • Genius

• I always collect images, maybe because I was working with historic material - but even if I were working with contemporary material, I would do the same thing. I keep a kind of index of them while I'm working. I find them incredibly useful, not so much to illustrate a time, but to give some sense of the feeling of a time.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Find

• I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reading

• We hide our racism. We just go on about our lives - may I say, white Canadians go on about their lives. African-Canadians understand racism, Indigenous Canadians understand racism: they see it all the time, they live with it.

  

  Constance Backhouse
  • Understand
  • Racism
  • Hide

• The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also able to feel the pain of losing. If you don't feel the pain of a loss, then you're in the same position as those unfortunate people who have no pain sensors. If they leave their hand on a hot stove, it will burn off. There is no way to survive in the world without pain. Similarly, in the markets, if the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.

  

  William Eckhardt
  • People
  • Financial
  • Causes

• I love the funny and sweet moments I have with my cats, Jake and Frank, so I'm honored to be celebrating these moments at the Catdance Film Festival.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Funny
  • Moments
  • Honored

• Everything I've made - it doesn't mean they've all been good - but everything I've made so far, big or little, fiction or documentary, has been something that I've been really enthusiastic about.

  

  Jonathan Demme
  • Good

• The Martians are always coming.

  

  Philip K. Dick