George Watsky Quotes

I don't believe in Hell, but I believe in my parents' couch.

George Watsky

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• I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Hate
  • Animals
  • Loss

• Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Very

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Payment

• We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Way
  • Change
  • Woman

• Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Art
  • Theatre
  • First

• If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Earth
  • Action
  • Alien

• I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Life
  • Day
  • Air

• The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Stupid
  • Realize
  • Brains

• He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Strong
  • Strength
  • Others

• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • She
  • High
  • Cool

• I got sober, and I got happy again.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Happy
  • Got
  • Sober

• If I'm not working, I don't feel complete.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Feel
  • Working
  • Complete

• In middle school, you're figuring out how you're affecting people, and sometimes you're affecting people negatively. And what sucks is that it can affect people for their whole lives. I didn't realize I was a part of that.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • School

• I'm always going with my visceral reaction when I read a script. I am more drawn to characters who are conflicted, and in developing a character exploration. If it's a baddie, I'm rarely intrigued, and if it's a goody two-shoes - too much of a good guy - I'm not, either.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Good
  • Character
  • Guy

• I think people look at me different when they see I'm dressed well. They pay attention. They know I'm about something.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People
  • Different
  • Attention

• Larry Hagman is one of the nicest people on the planet. He is so wonderful, so loving, so giving.

  

  Charlene Tilton
  • People
  • Giving

• I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Free

• A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.

  

  African Spir
  • Possibility
  • Benefits
  • Reflections

• Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Louisiana
  • Racists

• I'll just close my eyes and whisper,

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Eyes

• All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Human

• I don't believe in Hell, but I believe in my parents' couch.

  

  George Watsky
  • Parents
  • Hell
  • Couch