Use Quotes - Page 148

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

Life will let you get away with something for a while, but sooner or later, you will pay the price. Everything you do in life causes the effects that you experience. When you get the bill, be prepared to pay.

If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up.

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.

The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.

Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other!

Egocentrics are attracted to the inept. It gives them one more excuse for patting themselves on the back.

I'm shy. People get confused. They think as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. Why aren't you like this in normal life? Why can't you act in your social life? 'Because I can't!'

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

The strength behind communication is in its quality, not in its quantity. Your talk should be that of quality, not of quantity. You should use small sentences which say a lot. Or you should say a lot in small sentences.

Anything you want for your life, if someone else has done, become, or achieved it, use that as evidence that so can you.

We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypotheses, is like the art of deciphering, in which an ingenious conjecture often greatly shortens the road.

I'm not scared of spiders at all. I'm the spider killer in the house.

I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.