P.J. Mann Quotes

There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.

We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

I observe a lot of you drunk people. What I do is I just let myself go there and fully commit to that drunk thing, not that I've ever done that myself. I've had a lot of practice. Let's be honest.

I guess Judd (Apatow) is my soul mate because we have a lot of hard times, and it's great at times, too.

Written by a woman automatically is better.

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

I'm pretty much game for anything.

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

We discovered that we have a fun chemistry physically. Cameron [Diaz] has really long legs and a short torso, and I have a really long torso and shorter legs.

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.

I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.

Nine to Five is actually one of my favorite movies. I watched it a thousand times when I was a child, literally a thousand times.

There's nothing in [The Other Woman] movie that feels like an R to us.

I've been married for 17 years and you know how the actors say, "It's really technical. Those scenes are not sexy. They're just so technical. It's like work." And I'm like, "That's bullshit."

I'm terrified by speaking in front of people!

There is something more important than the place being left. It's that swell of crushing emptiness that makes the insignificant seem anything but.

Make the time to be scared of more interesting things.

Everything you agree to do is other things you can't do

Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.

Being consistent is way less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties

Think how hard physics would be if particles could think

Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special

Bush is a nice fellow who gives very good parties. I just wish someone would find him a better job than running the country.

Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

I would like to say that I helped out our men in uniform, but the truth is I probably just grumbled at the noise.

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.

There were a lot of people, I found, whod rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a challenge.

A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.

Science never makes an advance until philosophy authorizes it to do so.

Beer soothes the upset soul.

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.