Edward Urner Goodman Quotes

He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest

Edward Urner Goodman

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• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
  • Why
  • May

• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • God
  • Today
  • Ignorance

• I never said half the things I said.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Said
  • Half

• Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Terrible
  • Price
  • Economics

• We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Technology
  • Value
  • Ensure

• Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Success

• Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Affection
  • Often
  • Mental

• There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Song
  • Black
  • Morning

• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Work
  • Government
  • New

• We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Live
  • Deal
  • Some

• I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Long
  • Country
  • Think

• My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.'

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Why
  • May

• But, as it is, this pied collectionbegs your indulgence - it's been spunfrom threads both sad and humoristic,themes popular or idealistic,products of carefree hours, of fun,of sleeplessness, faint inspirations,of powers unripe, or on the wane,of reason's icy intimations,and records of a heart in pain.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Pain

• It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great

• Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Science
  • Black
  • Energy

• 'Coriolanus' deals with the birth of democracy. And that has been fascinating because I've been talking about politics so much because of 'Borgen.' It's a nice bridge.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Nice
  • Democracy
  • Bridge

• I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Taken
  • Picture

• [Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!

  

  Adam Sedgwick
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Game

• I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

  

  Count Basie
  • Up
  • Important
  • Real

• I already have it, but a good keyboard is invaluable when you spend a lot of time typing. My favorite one is the ancient IBM Model M I have at home.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Home

• Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Heart
  • Dark
  • Sigh Of Relief

• He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest

  

  Edward Urner Goodman