MY FAVORITE QUOTES

"Agree to disagree.

-John Wesley

It's not what they call you. It's what you answer to.

-W. C. Fields

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so we never have to experience it.

-Anonymous

The situation that video games and all media provide "is really about the pacing, how fast the scene changes per minute," say Dr. Dimitri Christakis of the University of Washington Medical School. If the child's brain gets habituated to that pace and to the extreme alertness needed to keep responding and winning, he said the child ultimately may find the realities of the world underwhelming and understimulating."

-David Thomson in The Big Screen

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

-George Burns

I always say: Don’t make plans , make options.

-Jennifer Aniston

So in every individual two trends, one towards personal happiness, the other towards unity with the rest of society, must contend with each other.

-Sigmund Freud

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

-John Stuart Mill

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We try to interpret what we see by selecting the most workable of the multiple choices. Thus,we impose our own subjective narrative line upon conflicting images by freezing and then categorizing the confusing phenomena which is our actual objective experience.

-Joan Didion in The White Album

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

-William James

Life can only be understood backwards.

-Soren Kierkegaard

Experience is not what has happened to you. It is what you do with what has happened to you.

-Aldous Huxley

No man is evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, which is the good he seeks.

-Mary Wollstonecraft

Psychologists have discovered that our personalities differ in five major ways: we are to varying degrees introverted or extroverted, neurotic or stable, incurious or open to experience, agreeable or antagonistic, and conscientious or undirected. Most of the 18,000 adjectives for personality traits in an unabridged dictionary can be tied to one of these five dimensions. All five…are inherited.

-Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

In Bowling Alone, Harvard public-policy Professor Robert Putnam documents a huge drop in all forms of public life since the late 1960’s and a corresponding rise in measures of malaise, from the use of antidepressants to suicide rates. Medical studies confirm that individuals are sicker and die sooner in direct proportion to the degree that they are isolated from others.

-Joannie Fischer in U.S. News & World Report

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn’t poor; I was needy. They told me next it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy; I was deprived. They told me deprived was too judgmental; instead I was underprivileged. Then they told me underprivileged was over-used, so I was disadvantaged. I still don’t have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary.

-Jules Feiffer

A man can do what he wants, but he can't not want what he wants.

-Arthur Schopenhauer

Basketball, like all team sports, has a built-in ethical question: Does the individual try to win on his own or trust in his teammates? It is the predicament of modern life.

-Bethlehem Shoals

The tragedy of sexuality is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

-William Butler Yeats

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent. (My personal motto)

-Steve Martin

It is just as easy to lose your way inside yourself as it is to get lost in the woods or in a city.

-Giaconelli Mateotti in Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell

There was an obvious precedent for the basic story of Superman, in which a wise and mighty father in the heavens sends his only son to earth, where he performs miraculous feats for the benefit of mankind.

David Hajdu in The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare And How It Changed America

Mongo only pawn in game of life.

-Mongo in Blazing Saddles

This is the most beautiful sunset I have seen all day!

Kea Chambers

If "moderation in all things" is your philosophy, shouldn't you be moderate in your moderation?

-Bob Baron