Paul Simon Quotes
They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
-
Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
-
The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.
-
No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
-
The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
-
I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
-
When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
-
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
-
When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.
-
While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
-
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
-
I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.
-
We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.
-
Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'
-
Virtue is reason which has become energy.
-
It's not a public matter when you discipline your family.
-
Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.
-
I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.
-
Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.
-
China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.
-
I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
-
States Rights died at Appomattox.
-
They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.
