Viejas Pendejas Quotes & Sayings

Self-governance does not mean no one is responsible. It means everyone is. — Heather Marsh

Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature. — William Dean Howells

Simple statements are to be prized more highly than less simple ones because they tell us more; because their empirical content is greater; and because they are better testable. — Karl Popper

The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as an example of something I might produce?' Let us, then, consider literature as a productive science. — J.V. Cunningham

The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands! — Bill Russell

Movies that look safe are less interesting. — Guillermo Del Toro

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. — Groucho Marx

Ah'll clean 'em, you fry 'em and let's eat,' he said with the assurance of not being refused. They went out into the kitchen and fixed up the hot fish and corn muffins and ate. Then Tea Cake went to the piano without so much as asking and began playing blues and singing, and throwing grins over his shoulder. The sounds lulled Janie to soft slumber and she woke up with Tea Cake combing her hair and scratching the dandruff from her scalp. It made her more comfortable and drowsy. — Zora Neale Hurston

There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances. — Natasha Leggero