Bedazzled 2000 Quotes & Sayings

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.' — Donny Most

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action? — Adlai Stevenson I

If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is "black" or "white." I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race. — Jamaica Kincaid

The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to be tight by our weaknesses, our vices, our prejudices that confine them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists,the public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back, even demand a crash program ... for this is one race we dare not lose. — Donald Keyhoe

If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe, the mystery of consciousness) that I feel affect me most in my life and think about most of the time. Another reason is that it doesn't seem specific or accurate, to me, to write about "being [abstraction]." I think there are some other reasons. — Tao Lin

To go from working with a group of people in a sketch-comedy show on a small network, where it was all about just creating funny stuff, to being on a network show, and the pressures of that, and getting to know the new people who were involved in it. There was a learning curve for me. But it was an education. — Ken Marino

I've heard people say that you have to tip-toe around a woman's emotions, but a man's ego is every bit as fragile, if not more so. — Trisha Wolfe

She says things that genuinely move me. She lets her soul slip through her lips, and it's always raw and incredibly sad. — Tarryn Fisher

Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading. — Eric Hoffer

I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light. — Glenn Greenwald

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer. — Edmund Hillary

Finite games can be played within an infinite game, but an infinite game cannot be played within a finite game. — James P. Carse