PZ Myers Quotes

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.

I'm bigger than you! I'm higher on the food chain - get in my belly!

It is much more easy for a Spanish person to love themselves than a Canadian person.

I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it.

My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.

I like my privacy. I love being a part of [films], but when I'm not doing stuff, I like to go away. I enjoy being a person, a great deal.

I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.

Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!

I've been involved with Shrek for eleven years, so you'd better like Shrek if you're going to be involved with it for eleven years. I do, I like it a great deal, so I enjoy it.

The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work.

If you get moving, you get motivated. Even random movement will motivate you.

The limits of your imagination are not the boundaries of my universe.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.

Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

How deep is your game?

Each of us is born with a history already in place

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

I write in a small office at home.

I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.

I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.

What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.

Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

But now, like a fallen sparrow On a golden chain, I'm forever bound in shadow, A prisoner to my pain.

On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that’s not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

New York is my favorite city.

Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

If you want the answer—ask the question.

If you seek creative ideas go walking.Angels whisper to a man when he goes fora walk.

Extend your "best before" date by living a youthful life.

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.

Once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less.