Isms Quotes - Page 2

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

I have never been disappointed upon asking microorganisms for whatever I wanted.

Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I’m definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they’re like when you take their preferred substance away.

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.

80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.

The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any "ism." When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile.

Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

I am the ism, my hate's a prism.

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.