Henry David Thoreau Quotes
What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?
Quotes to Explore
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.
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The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...
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I would die to record in space. That would be the coolest. If I got the option of, going into outer space and hanging out there for a day, and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow. I'd be happy just hanging out between the moon and the Earth, getting a view.
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You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.
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What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?
