Talview Quotes & Sayings

I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum. — Melanie Brown

Hopefully we'll get to a point where people realize movies don't cause violence. It just reflects the violence going on in the culture. — Eli Roth

There i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do? — Kurt Vonnegut

I know that I basically have the same hair as Beaker from 'the Muppets.' — Brad Goreski

If you're an artist who's built on marketing and hype then most likely I won't listen to you. — Mac Miller

As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just as when the telescopes become more and more powerful, the galaxies have to recede in order to get away from the telescopes. Because what is happening in all these investigations is this: Through us and through our eyes and senses, the universe is looking at itself. And when you try to turn around to see your own head, what happens? It runs away. You can't get at it. This is the principle. Shankara explains it beautifully in his commentary on the Kenopanishad where he says 'That which is the Knower, the ground of all knowledge, is never itself an object of knowledge.'
[In this quote from 1973 Watts, remarkably, essentially anticipates the discovery (in the late 1990's) of the acceleration of the expansion of the universe.] — Alan W. Watts

As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle. — Frederick Lenz

As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation. — Steven Johnson

I would be daft to say I wouldn't like to try Hollywood. But my main dream is to keep working. Keep loving what I am doing. — Siobhan Finneran