Ems Quotes - Page 15

I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems.

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge. It recognizes aesthetic, moral, and religious ideas and experiences as a species, in this case of mental structures or of images, which clearly interacts with other species in the world's great' ecosystem.

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...

Don't tell 'em - SHOW 'em!

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

I don't try to knock 'em out, I just know I will

People like the robber barons assumed that the doctrine of the survival of the fittest authenticated them as deserving power. You know, "I'm the richest. Therefore, I'm the best. God's in his heaven, etc." And that reaction of the robber barons was so irritating to people that it made it unfashionable to think of an economy as an ecosystem. But the truth is that it is a lot like an ecosystem. And you get many of the same results.

It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!

I try to surround myself with a good support system. Whether that's other creators or my family or my friends, or even my viewers, who encourage me just as much as I might encourage them and they're just as much a part of my life as they let me be a part of theirs.

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

You are no stronger than your belief system.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature nests small systems like molecules within larger systems like cells, which in turn are nested in systems called organs, organisms, ecosystems. We grew from ancient one-celled ancestors. Nature likes mergers: we contain multitudes of other life forms within us. We stand at the crest of four billion years, bacteria molded into wondrous form, burning with a slow fire and about to take the next step.

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!