Randall Munroe Quotes
One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
Quotes to Explore
-
My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
-
I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
-
I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
-
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
-
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
-
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
-
It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
-
It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
-
Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
-
I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.
-
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
-
My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
-
I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
-
I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
-
We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
-
The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
-
I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
-
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
-
Regardless of how I live my life, there are people who develop fixations that are not healthy. It could be a visual thing, or it could be the music that they are drawn to. These people need help.
-
There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.
-
Ours was not always a nation of homeowners; the New Deal fashioned it so, particularly through the G.I. Bill of Rights.
-
'Ray Donovan' is such a revelation to everybody who's working on it, and it's only getting better.
-
In the future, Chiropractic will be valued for its preventative qualities as much as for relieving and adjusting the cause of ailments.
-
One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
