W. E. B. Griffin Quotes
You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up skulls and bones.
You know when grandparents get older and they can't do things for themselves anymore? I'm gonna struggle with that. Because I hate depending on people to do anything for me.
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial interest of its first two activities.
During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS Lieutenant General,...is shown here explaining how Farben operated such concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.
In order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the sport, you've got to keep an open mind.
Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.
I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.
It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.
This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.
Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.
I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.
I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.
Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.
We've lost a bunch on the road, I don't even know how many. It's a relief to get this one.
The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.
At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.
Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.
Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.
We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id break up the banking system.
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.
I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.
The thing that cracks me up is how these reality characters start out thrilled and excited just to be on television, and how they move to thinking they are as big as the Friends.
You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.
A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.
As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.
On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.
Teams want me to do something stupid. You want to get to the point where nothing affects you, where you control them.
I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.
