Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
-
They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
-
Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
-
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
-
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
-
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
-
I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
-
It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
-
Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
-
You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
-
I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
-
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
-
People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
-
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
-
I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
-
I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
-
Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
-
The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.
-
I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.
-
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
-
Interview with RIP Magazine, February 1993.
-
Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.
-
I think people seem to want to read pieces that are shorter but not as short as the pieces they can read in small bites on the Internet. It may be that the sort of long essays are hitting a sweet spot between the tiny morsels online and the full-length book.
-
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
