Richard Pryor Quotes
Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?
Quotes to Explore
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
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The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man’s place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires.And not to have is the beginning of desire. To have what is not is its ancient cycle.
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When we are young - or even 32 - we often say 'yes' to everything because we're worried that we won't know what we'll like if we don't try it.
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One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting on their homosexual attraction, who are avoiding the sin of practicing homosexuality. On the downside, you have destroyed marriages, traumatized children, and dead people who have taken their own lives.
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
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If I do an interview with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?
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If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.
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Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?
