Michael Ian Black Quotes

By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.

Michael Ian Black

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• Robots are good at things that are structured.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Good
  • Things
  • Robots

• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Look

• The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Money
  • Passion
  • Destiny

• Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.

  

  Young Thug
  • You
  • Rap
  • Brains

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

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

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Playing
  • Role
  • Then

• Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Important
  • Style
  • Jewelry

• I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Practice

• My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Great
  • Father
  • Beautiful

• I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Doing
  • Tennis
  • Fishing

• Grief is the price we pay for love.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Grief

• In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

  

  Larry Niven
  • May
  • Society
  • Hindsight

• I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Man

• The problem with motor neurone disease is they don't know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they're seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it'll be diagnosed.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Up
  • Problem

• ... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Abuse

• We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

  

  Jim Talent
  • Army

• Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Political
  • Justice
  • Marriage

• Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Men
  • May
  • She

• I believe in the 12 Jewels and try to provide my childrem with them. That is Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace and Happiness.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.

  

  Tyne Daly
  • People
  • Writing

• There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write about war and politics and public life, while women confine themselves to family and food and personal life.

  

  Annia Ciezadlo
  • Men
  • Writing
  • War

• Mede spoke with amused tolerance, as physicists generally speak of biologists.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Tolerance

• By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up. And then I want to do something else. I don't know why it is true with me that I can't just be satisfied doing the one thing, but I'm constantly flitting from one thing to another.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Hair