Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
I personally find it difficult to accept that there could be anyone on earth insensitive to the comic abilities of Laurel and Hardy, Sid Caesar, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, or Martin Short. But no matter who the comic entertainer is, there is always at least a minority prepared to say, 'What's all the excitement about? He doesn't seem funny to me.'
I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.
In general, the straight line of a joke sets up a premise, an expectation. Then the funny ending - the punch line - in a sense contradicts the original assumption by refusing to follow what had seemed a reasonable train of thought. Many jokes involve that simple matter of leaping outside what had appeared to be the rules of the game at the moment.
It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'
I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.
When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.
I like to reserve the right to write about whatever I like.
After a few months in my parents' bas*ment, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.
I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.
I don't know, when I was a kid, when I would see shows that changed my life, I would go to see shows where there was my mother taking us to see classic rock concerts, like Zeppelin, or when I saw Pink Floyd or when I saw, you know, when I was a little older, and I saw Nine Inch Nails, and I saw The Cure.
He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Insight is the first condition of Art.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I can't speak on their behalf.
Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Christmas reminds us that God loves every one of us, even the worst.
Pope Francis - Weihnachten 2019
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.
Ignore the ignorant.
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'
Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.
Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.
I don't play ball because I want attention. I do it because it gives me the opportunity to bust somebody's head. And I just love to do it. I love what I do.
To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple times. I've been doing them since I was a little one, though. Just something I've enjoyed doing, just flip.
If you are in your everyday life, and you feel like you just accomplished something big that you had going on, then that's Beast Mode. It's an accomplishment, that you put yourself through something to get something better out of it. I feel that that's Beast Mode.
My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.
The combination of a blazer over any T-shirt with a pair of jeans is foolproof.
All I wanted to do when I was a teenager was get dropped off at a radio station - one of the ones I listened to - and watch how the shows worked. After a point it was about showing up and driving people crazy, driving the van to promotions and sneaking on the air.
Part of wearing a tee is saying, 'I'm comfortable and casual.'
I was born with good health and a strong body and spent years abusing them.
I always just wanted to be a cheesy guy on television.
