Wiggers Clymer Quotes & Sayings

This, then, is the human problem: there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. By remembering the past we can plan for the future. But the ability to plan for the future is offset by the "ability" to dread pain and to fear of the unknown. Furthermore, the growth of an acute sense of the past and future gives us a corresponding dim sense of the present. In other words, we seem to reach a point where the advantages of being conscious are outweighed by its disadvantages, where extreme sensitivity makes us unadaptable. — Alan W. Watts

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in. — Jesse Eisenberg

If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices of the moment to the judgment of more impartial times, with what right can we call in question the loftier form of the same prophetic trust which looks to a present God rather than to future men? — James Martineau

I am an immigrant in a sense. What happened was that my father was stationed in New York when my mother became pregnant, and she said, "I've got to go to Sweden so this child can be born there, because you don't have any idea where you're going to be transferred next." — Claes Oldenburg

For people like him, Hell was where you went when you died, and he saw no point in restructuring his life in hopes of avoiding that. And — Ted Chiang

And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with. — Rube Goldberg

You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead. — Santosh Kalwar

Wow,' says Jonah, leaning his head on an elbow. Do you say 'Thanks' when someone says 'Wow'? I don't know so I play safe and ask 'Do you ever think you might be a different species of human, knitted out of raw DNA in a laboratory like in The Island of Doctor Moreau, and then turned loose to see if you can pass yourself off as normal or not?' Gentle — David Mitchell

Alas! for love, if thou art all,
And nought beyond, O earth. — Felicia Hemans

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one. — Andrew Stanton

World peace starts at home and begins with letting go of grudges. — Charles F. Glassman

O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once. — James Joyce

Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears. — Billy Bob Thornton