DJ Paul Quotes

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

You cannot be known Better than I know you.

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.

I favor parking a few miles from the office and walking to work. You get the benefit of exercise and besides it is easier to get a parking space.

Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.

The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.

There were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out.

I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.

That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.

It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.