La La Anthony Quotes

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

I'm too cynical to be an optimist.

I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.

Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

Obviously it could be, because it was.

There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?" "Of course there is," said the Master. "How would you describe it?" "Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.

No matter what the people say, I'm gonna love you anyway. Girl, you're my first love.

Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

I've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind.

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.

On the show, you have to be more charismatic, a little smoother, but I think I can still be that prince of darkness. You just have to learn the tricks of the TV trade as well.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.

Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.

You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.

You should enjoy the present moment because this is all you have. Create for tomorrow, but live in and for today.

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

I like fighting Tories... that's what I do.

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.