Joyce DeWitt Quotes

One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.

Joyce DeWitt

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• Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Earth

• India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • India
  • DNA

• With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Cool
  • Drama

• I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Long
  • Woman

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Country

• A sensible human once said, 'If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit'; and again, 'She's the sort of woman who lives for others-you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • She
  • Feeling

• It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Children

• 'I just got shot in the ass with an infected load of semen! Who's the smart-ass?'

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Smart

• Bubbles! Oh come on Sharon! I'm fucking Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of fucking Darkness. Evil! Evil! What's fucking evil about a buttload of fucking bubbles!?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Evil
  • Prince
  • Bubbles

• The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Family
  • Father
  • Small

• If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.

  

  Ann Leckie
  • Crazy

• The meaning of religious truth is hope.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Religious

• Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  

  Bernard Baruch
  • Mind

• As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Good
  • Father

• Even if a media of a TV is not available in a home, there's this concept of community homes, where a reasonably well-off villager will have a TV - and a nice TV - and he'll keep it outside the house in the evenings.

  

  Azim Premji
  • Home
  • House
  • Community

• A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.

  

  Courtney Love
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

  

  Euripides
  • Life
  • Balance
  • Wise Man

• Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Strong
  • Equality

• When you go into MMA you really can't do it half-assed. If you do it half-assed, then you're going to get annihilated. You're going to get destroyed out there: there are some really good fighters out there.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Destroyed
  • Fighters
  • Half-Assing

• One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.

  

  Joyce DeWitt
  • Universe
  • Laughter
  • Fantasy