Seth MacFarlane Quotes

There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.'

Seth MacFarlane

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• When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Words

• Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Past

• All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Feeling
  • Unique
  • Perception

• (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Car
  • Thought

• I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.

  

  E. L. James
  • Work
  • Television
  • Ironic

• You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

  

  Edie Adams
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Leave

• During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Practice
  • Key
  • Swing

• Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Free

• Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Impossible
  • Achieve
  • Will

• See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Free
  • See
  • Slave

• I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Life
  • God
  • Money

• I never thought about being famous.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Famous

• We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • People
  • Time
  • Internet

• Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Character

• Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

  

  Keir Dullea

• The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• There's no such thing as an uber-mom.

  

  Kelly Ripa
  • Mom

• I love doing what I do. I'm a born mentor. I've launched so many people's careers. I worked hard.

  

  Paula Abdul
  • People
  • Mentor

• Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Wisdom
  • Judgment
  • Hunting

• Some sculptors make drawings, I make heads.

  

  David Altmejd
  • Some
  • Drawings
  • Sculptors

• Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Money
  • Guy
  • Funny

• There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.'

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Guy
  • Sound
  • Weather