Sam Quotes

I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did.

To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.

It is far easier to get divorced from somebody you've been married to for 10 years and have three children by than to fire somebody that's worked for you for one year.

When I was doing local weather full time, I would wake up in the morning or stay up all night to make sure the snowflakes started at the time that I said they would.

My hope is that anyone who is in love, has been in love, understands love, will be a person who will stand up and say everyone deserves to feel that.

Educate yourself on what's going on around the world where children are dying. Educate yourself on what's going on in Africa.

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

Half of all home accidents happen in the kitchen, and the family has to eat them.

I try to figure my adjusted gross income, but no matter how I figure it, it's still gross.

On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.

To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.

Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.

You can run on a football field but you can't hide out there.

I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.

You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.

The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms not dictated so much by our culture, our parents, or our religious convictions.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.

The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes.

I think I already understand about life: pretty good, some problems.

More and more Congressmen now stay in Washington all year-round because they can't stay at home under the laws they've passed.

No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside.

The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends.

It's no fun throwing fastballs to guys who can't hit them. The real challenge is getting them out on the stuff they can hit.

I think that our American people will welcome a Russian military force for peace-keeping purposes.

If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

Nowadays everyone's got the nose rings and the colored hair, so for me to wear the suit and tie is a different way to go.

Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

I like power and I like to use it.

An editor is like a painter. There is a magic in that.

It's too easy to get swept up; doing things because the opportunities are there, not because we're burning to do them.

The reason my food bank is vegan is because I can't pay for animal products in good conscience.

Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.

There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard.

Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it.

When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.

That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.

Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.

The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.

I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake.

The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.

Those who go along get along.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.