Richard Tyler Blevins Quotes & Sayings

My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass. — W.C. Fields

It [the Quit India Resolution] was very far from being the Gita, but like Gita it suffered from flood of explanations, commentaries, and interpretations. — R.P. Noronha

I'm big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain. — Jean Chatzky

Gravity is a myth. In reality the earth sucks. — A.V. Roe

The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it. — Austin O'Malley

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple. — Daisy Berkowitz

but statistics requires thinking about many things at once, which is something that System 1 is not designed to do. — Daniel Kahneman

Sadness is like growing of hairs around our ass; we may not like it or want it, but it is surprisingly always there. — M.F. Moonzajer

I love creating characters that are ridiculous and flawed. To me, the most important thing about comedy is the joy it can bring to the performers and the audience alike. I love making people laugh and not over-thinking things. Some of my favorite moments are when I am doing an improv scene with friends, and I can't stop laughing during it. — Lauren Lapkus

Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others. — Elizabeth Drew

Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back. — Chadwick Boseman

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most. — Eleonora Duse

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you say that you're a cheap designer, you're a cheap designer. It's really hard to recover from that. — Jessica Hische

Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe. — David F. Wells