Kevin Nealon Quotes

I think having a child makes you calm down. You sit still.

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• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Screenwriting
  • Itch

• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Logic

• One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Want
  • Taken
  • Successful

• Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Women
  • Me
  • Inspire

• What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Live
  • Like
  • Jazz

• When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Guy
  • Style
  • Talking

• It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Book
  • Finish
  • Almost

• I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Think
  • Play
  • Basketball

• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Gay

• Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Art
  • Sad
  • Popular

• The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Environment
  • Management
  • Marketing

• If the universe has any soul, it is the soul of irony.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Soul
  • Universe

• I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Dumb

• To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain the sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can offer in return for the mystery by which we live. Who is worthy to be present at the constant unfolding of time?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Time
  • Live
  • Present

• 'For a long time I used to think that anal sex was how lawyers were conceived.'

  

  Lawyer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Sex

• It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Public
  • Offensive
  • Regretted

• These proposals spring, without ulterior motive or political passion, from our calm conviction that the hunger for peace is in the hearts of all people - those of Russia and of China no less than of our own country. They conform to our firm faith that God created man to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Safety
  • Danger
  • Calm

• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Nothing

• Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in a way that allows me to be a part of this reality, which I was excluded from before. Thanks to the eyeborg, I've made a career by combining music and art.

  

  Neil Harbisson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Experience

• I think having a child makes you calm down. You sit still.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Calm