Ed Harris Quotes

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

History is too important to be left to the historians.

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

As a man believes, so he will act.

To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.

Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our world.

It is important to realize that our inability to answer a question says nothing about whether the question itself has an answer.

If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science . That will be the science of Christianity.

Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.

All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the earth.

Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.

This is how you play tennis without the net

In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.

‎Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident

I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.

Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.

Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed (Aquinas).

To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.

The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.

So there's a few different ways that we treat insomnia. The first thing that we always do is we look at the cause.

We try not using medications initially, and we use something called behavioral therapy for insomnia. This changes behaviors people do in bed, none of the tossing and turning.

So when it comes to circadian rhythms, it's a clock that's basically programmed in our body. So if you think back to times when people lived on farms and we didn't have electricity.

We haven't really - it's harder for us to set those rhythms. So it's really important to keep a steady bedtime and wake time to really lock in those rhythms.

Now circadian rhythms become very interesting and problematic for patients because when you become a teenager, your rhythms actually tend to naturally shift.

So the deeper stages of sleep are really those times of quiescence, you're really restoring your body and we have a few different stages of sleep.

And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in REM later on in the night than we do earlier on.

So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep.

Really if it's an hour or two after you've fallen asleep because you're in such a deep sleep at that point.

We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

Decrements in attention and concentration, being able to learn more efficiently, that's just not as good. Also, there are motor vehicle accidents, workplace accidents, we see that a lot.

In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.

There are some that are - REM Behavior Disorder, we'll see some court documented cases. And they really need to have a thorough evaluation with a sleep specialist.

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music. My definition of music is "organizing sound and silence into emotion," and that's a very broad definition.

The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.

It's about being here in the moment, accepting one another and allowing creativity to flow.

Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.