Ed Harris Quotes

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.

So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity Hoping for a glimpse of Galilee

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

No one remembers you for standing in the crowd . But they do remember you for standing out of it.

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love

I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.

I had a friend say to me the other day, I hate when I see Jonathan Metzl on your show because I know it's bad news. I know that there has been a shooting.

Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.

The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness of life.

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.

The thing about relationships is, when you are in the middle of one, they consume your focus.

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.

It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself.

When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused... Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

If it's free put me down for two please

I'm one of the luckiest people on Earth.

We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.

I wanna open a Jamaican/Irish/Spanish small plate breakfast restaurant and call it Tapas the Morning to Ja.

Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.

All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.