Matt Groening Quotes

The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

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• The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Gift

• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Business
  • Man

• I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Energy
  • Player
  • Year

• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Feelings
  • Emotional
  • See

• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Street
  • Over
  • Bar

• My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Family
  • Mother

• You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Day
  • Year
  • Shaving

• I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Eyes
  • Government
  • Impossible

• I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Think
  • Relationship
  • Moments

• Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Together
  • Community
  • Unique

• I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Think
  • Years
  • Hollywood

• The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Power
  • Alone
  • Will

• I don't have time to be that girl who does the super workout. But I try to be as fit as possible, given my schedule. Even if I do 20 minutes a day, it's better than nothing.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Day

• I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Better
  • Regret
  • Prepare

• As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Long
  • Love
  • Best

• The power of the masses can influence any government in the world. The power of the masses can elect an official, start a revolution, and drive history. Nelson Mandela did it alone from his prison cell. Ghandi did it lying down. Egypt did it singing songs.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • World
  • Power
  • History

• Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

  

  Logic
  • Art
  • Science
  • Logic

• Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do next, I would advise him to get out of science. After two years of work, if a man does not know what to do next, he will never make a real scientist.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Real
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Book
  • Together
  • Doing

• I have a definition of success.

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • Success
  • Definition

• The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Movie
  • Science
  • Nice