Paul Sills Quotes & Sayings

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination. — Jess Walter

Why must it be in human nature to hear one thing but to believe in another?"
"Because we want things to get better," I said. "Otherwise we would all give up. — F.E. Higgins

That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head. — Tatiana Maslany

I find that Americans are all in the middle somewhere, except for the extreme nuts, and extreme nuts on both sides are the loudest. And that's why it feels like we are polarized. — Christopher Titus

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country. — James Monroe

Those who guide us, who inspire us, having gone our way before, are now partners with us in building a better world. Any success we have is theirs as well as ours. To copy or imitate them should be only the beginning-the apprentice stage of life. It is fine to think, "what will a Shaker do? What would Scott Nearing have said? What would Gandhi have thought?" These are good exercises for the mind, a way of weighing ideas and contemplated actions, valuable so long as we do not follow anyone blindly.
Only by standing on their shoulders can we build a better world, but we should use the wise as advisers, not masters. — William Coperthwaite

He said I was too sad a nd that some day I wouldn't be sad anymore - and maybe then I would let someone love me. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

What do you know of gods and saints?" I ask, filling my voice with scorn.
His fingers drift to the silver oak leaf of Saint Camulos on his cloak. "I know that what our saints want is not always made clear to us. Sometimes, it is their wish for us to flail and struggle and come to our own choices, not accept ones that have been made for us. — Robin LaFevers

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts. — Alan Ladd

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. — William Faulkner

I've never been good at improvising. — Terry Jones

... most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance. — Yvon Chouinard

We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore the reality that cooperative counterterrorism activities are a key to our national defense. — John O. Brennan

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally. — Thomas Mann

I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I'm concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW! — Al Yankovic