Ed Harris Quotes

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.

We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.

I'm very reactive, I think. I'm down to throw down with people. Online, of course. Not in person.

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

And, coaching has never been an option for me.

But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was.

I think everyone's voice is unique. Although sometimes when you listen to the radio, it makes you wonder.

A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.

I'm just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking 'am I old?' I'm this age. I am in this moment and in this life.

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

So, sleep deprivation, and sometimes an insomnia, which is a little bit of a different form, but just getting a lack of sleep, can lead to a number of different decrements.

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.

The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.

It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.

If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.

Oh come on Pam, they're funny. They're like humans but miniature...tea cup humans!

Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.

We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.

We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas

It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism.” We are at war with Islam.

I am always looking for some clue, some easily missed sign that might just be the missing piece in the puzzle.

The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

I want to be happy because it is beneficial for me but also because I want to be a messenger of happiness to my friends and family.

Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.

You cannot take death for apostasy seriously and be working for peace.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

God is the one who chooses our rulers

Workplace accidents with people who are sleep deprived or people who work shifts and they don't get the right amount of sleep during the day or at night.

I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.

Eric, what are you doing?" "Snuggling." "Get out of my bed!" -Sookie Stackhouse, Eric Northman

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.