“Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 196 of 303
“Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.”
“You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.”
“I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give you respect if you don't deserve it just because you say something.”
“People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.”
“I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.”
“I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.”
“Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about.”
“I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are.”
“While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.”
“Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.”
“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”
“Tom, my husband, who converted to Judaism when we got married, and as a consequence, we were learning about historical conversions to Judaism. Really, every time it pops up, it's very strange.”
“A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities.”
“You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.”
“Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?”
“Sweet Skepticism of the Heart That knows and does not know And tosses like a Fleet of Balm Affronted by the snow.”
“Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.”
“Understand one another.”
“The importance of balance is huge but I think it is for everybody. It's a big issue for at least anyone that I talk to in any career.”