Scharpling Quotes & Sayings

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. — John Updike

What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason?" he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control.
"For one thing, Djetth, he wasn't trying to kill me!"
("Marsh", heroine of Insufficient Mating Material) — Rowena Cherry

And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations. — Alistair MacLeod

Look, you couldn't pay me to listen to their music, but I still feel like I have more in common with Insane Clown Posse than I do with someone who just sits on the sidelines and shits on other people's work and who never puts themselves on the line. — Tom Scharpling

I'm Here All Weak might be the strangest comedy album I have ever heard. But I've listened twice, which is more than I listen to 90 percent of all comedy albums, so I think I love it? — Tom Scharpling

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with. — Jonathan Safran Foer

My friend Phil Morrison directed a lot of my favorite videos back in the mid- to late-90s - all the Yo La Tengo videos that were funny, a Juliana Hatfield video. He was such an influence with me, and I wanted to do a video the way Phil used to do videos. I did that for Phil. — Tom Scharpling

I love doing the show more than anything. It's truly the most satisfying thing creatively that I've ever had in my life. — Tom Scharpling

I will say, the performers in the musical are some of the most super-talented people I've ever seen. — Tom Scharpling

In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think. — Tom Scharpling

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. — Edmund Hillary

I always have a lot of respect for people who do things. Even if it's the worst garbage on earth. — Tom Scharpling

Lindsay Lohan's collaboration was a disaster. I am furious but I can't do anything about it. That happens to a lot of designers. We were the creators and patrons, responsible for the creation and destiny of our houses. But when we gave up our houses, we gave up our souls. — Emanuel Ungaro

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance. — John Malkovich

How do you know where you're going if you don't know where you've been — Todd Stocker

Creeps get rewarded for being creepy. — Tom Scharpling

The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not. — Tom Scharpling

My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work. — Tom Scharpling

I keep thinking the bad guys will win in the end and take it all away, but somehow it all seems to keep working. — Tom Scharpling

The thing is when you're ... well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don't really think about whether or not you're qualified. They just want somebody that will be a drawing card for the audience. So it's up to you to decide whether or not it's foolish to get up and speak to these people. — Alan Alda

The question that naturally occurs is "What would it be like if a star exploded nearby?" Our nearest stellar neighbor, as we have seen, is Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light-years away. I had imagined that if there were an explosion there we would have 4.3 years to watch the light of this magnificent event spreading across the sky, as if tipped from a giant can. What would it be like if we had four years and four months to watch an inescapable doom advancing toward us, knowing that when it finally arrived it would blow the skin right off our bones? Would people still go to work? Would farmers plant crops? Would anyone deliver them to the stores? — Bill Bryson

67"You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve.y 68Simon Peter answered him,z "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.a 69We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God."b — Anonymous

Be of good cheer. The future is as bright as your faith. — Thomas S. Monson

I get so much inspiration from people working hard at music, even though it's nothing to do with what I do. — Tom Scharpling

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself. — Eric Alterman

You listen to me, woman: you're mine! I'll not share you and, by God, we shall be married!" His mouth came down hard on hers and his lips crushed hers as he stamped his possession on her startled mouth. — Shirlee Busbee