Richard Scott Bakker Quotes
This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
-
I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
-
I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
-
The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
-
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
-
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
-
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
-
There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
-
There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
-
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
-
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
-
Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
-
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
-
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
-
I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
-
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
-
My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
-
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
-
I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.
-
I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.
-
When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?
-
I've always loved dogs and have had one since I was three. We bought her from a kid selling puppies out of a cardboard box on the street where we lived in New York City. Great dog. We named her 'Marcella' after a Raggedy Ann character. She grew up with us.
-
This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.
