A.Z. Black Quotes

Best way to rob a bank is to own one.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

People scream at me, "Hey, let's party." I give off an I'm-crazy-and-I-want-to-arty-and-wrestle-you vibe.

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan [for 2011].

We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case.

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.

Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love.

They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really?

But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.

When I was a kid, you ate, and you drank, and you passed out and nobody woke you up and said, 'Let's go shopping.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything.

Everything tries to be round.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

Excited. In a good way. I've been training my whole life for this.

When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.

If you bring cases against powerful bankers, they will enlist their political allies and they will give very large political contributions to do that

I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.

I can pretty much guarantee that if I do a show in a comedy club, there will be someone who will come out of the audience and tell me the worst joke ever. It's just a guarantee.

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

Love changes us, but we change how we love too.

No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.

The fear of God kills all other fears.

Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd better be sure that God has faith in them.

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

I've done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they're together.

Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don't desire, but they're inevitable, we have to face them. It's what being human is all about.

We're not just twice as powerful when we're together, but ten times as powerful.

Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.

There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.