Tom Lehrer Quotes

Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.

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• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Long
  • School
  • She

• Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Present
  • Old

• I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Political
  • Myself

• I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

  

  Waverley Lewis Root
  • Destiny
  • Crushed
  • Mint

• A man was desired to rise from bed, because the sun was already risen. To which he replied: 'If I had as far to go, and as much to do as he has, I should be risen by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not rise yet.'

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Sun

• Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

  

  Alice Walker
  • Trying
  • Attention
  • Dance

• Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that's not my personal goal.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time

• It's not my job to convince people that Koresh was the final messenger or had this final message.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • People
  • Job

• All mothers go through the exact same things.

  

  Angie Harmon

• 'Teenage Dream' was the most difficult song I've ever been a part of. We wrote five different versions of it. We couldn't get the lyrics right. Max Martin and Dr. Luke wrote most of the melody, and then Katy Perry and I were responsible for getting the lyrics right.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Different
  • Song
  • Dream

• I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can't control that.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • People
  • Control

• If I'm extra happy or excited, it'll take me an hour or two to write a song. Or, if I'm really sad or something, it will take me about a day. But I have a specific way of writing: I just listen to the beat. I think about what I'm going to write over the beat.

  

  Astro
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Song

• We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Done
  • Progress
  • Option

• What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.

  

  Lauren Tom
  • World
  • Courage

• I think I just had it by osmosis: an appreciation of Duke Ellington before I really even knew who he was.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Appreciation

• The eye is the notebook of the poet.

  

  James Russell Lowell

• I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • City

• I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Life
  • Day
  • Inspired

• Why did virtually every culture reward its men for enduring violence? So it would have a cadre of people available to protect it in war.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Men
  • Why

• Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Time

• My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Nervous energy
  • Form of energy

• Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Missing
  • Fingers