Alan Weisman Quotes
Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.
Quotes to Explore
-
What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
-
I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
-
When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
-
I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
-
We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
-
Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
-
Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
-
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
-
It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
-
Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
-
Death is the beginning of something.
-
Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
-
Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.
-
I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.
-
Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
-
Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; 'for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost' is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith.
-
People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.
-
It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play on the field and you're over there sitting on the bench. That's not the kind of player I am. I'm the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game.
-
If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
-
Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.
-
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
-
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
-
If I can learn how to pitch in two months, and I'm doing OK, how can we not assume that a woman who's been working on it for her entire life won't be playing in the MLB? It's ridiculous.
-
Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.
