Able Quotes - Page 19

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

Conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were learning to unravel, was poetry.

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are.

Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .

I saw Hulk Hogan the other day in a parking lot, and I couldn't tell from a distance if it was Hulk Hogan or not. And I realized I've never had that dilemma before. I've always been able to tell immediately when looking at anybody if they were or were not Hulk Hogan.

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location.

In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.

I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.

You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.

I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'