Bob Swerski Quotes & Sayings

It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe. — Daniel Kahneman

More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
I speak, by the way, not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. It is not. It is merely a healthy concern for the predicament of modern man. — Woody Allen

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. — Horace

Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less. — Louis Kronenberger

Don't make me cover your face with a pillow until you see my side of things."
"Isn't that called murder? — G.A. Aiken

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time. — Steven Spielberg

Too much information is key to a more diverse, non-deterministic future. Once we have information overload we have choice, we never know which instructions a computer or a person is going to load into their thinking. We look at our newborn babies in a hospital maternity ward, and newborn computers stacked on a pallet, and we never know what rhetoric they may encounter, which instructions or question/answer sets they will leave more permanently loaded in their mental processing. Even the variance of permanence is a dimension no one knows, and will shape them or the world they shape. — Lance Miller

We like someone because. We love someone although. — Henry De Montherlant

I said I'd be honest, I never said I'd be consistant. — Grace Slick

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore. — Nancy Grace

But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work. — Gloria Whelan

What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be! — Sadao Araki

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now. — John Crowley

I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act. — Kate Flannery

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone. — Mahatma Gandhi