Raphael Quotes

From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives and times.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

I'm using more energy than ever.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.

Personal power means being secure and confident inside yourself.

Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

That's one of my greatest strengths. I'm a Scorpio rising - we're very decisive. I'm very good at cutting things off that don't feel right.

It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis of the Jewish population of medieval Hungary.

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

When the fey were worried, it was time to panic.

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

For me, I was the most vulnerable and needed the most in my postpartum experience and got the least. It was just kind of a drop-off. That would be my focus - on the woman, afterwards.

I've referred to [Marcus Lemonis] as my celebrity crush. I'm totally describing my celebrity crush, and that was not the question. But I am a fan of his. I really am.

I'm afraid of death, obviously.

It certainly wasn't taught in school beyond the idea of "girls can do anything that boys can do" - I understood that kind of pop culture feminism. I did not understand anything else about feminism.

I got so into moisturizing, my skin started overproducing oil. That's my story. There's a lot to talk about, for sure.

A lot of men, they don't put anything on their faces. And some women also overdo it.

I love The Golden Girls. I've watched recently, and it's sort of insane there's a chef that they're always referring to as "fancy" - the pilot's kind of a mess.

I do use the F word a lot, unfortunately.

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast.

My perfect Sunday is waking up at 10 - which, you know, those days are over for me - but waking up at 10, breakfast with children, hanging out with well-behaved children.

If someone tells me, "I just wash my face with soap," we have that discussion. And a lot of men, too. Thank god Paul Scheer knows to moisturize.

I don't know where it's come from, but after many years of many different products, I feel like I can speak as an authority on a lot of them.

That's the only thing I feel like, "No, no, no, no - I know the way. I know the way. I know where you are and you need to come with me, and we need to take care of our skin."

I'm like, "You could not wake up in the sixes? Does it really gotta be in the fives?" Because the 5 really feels like nighttime. I don't like the day starting at 5.

I love being a mom. Being a mother is my favorite thing ever.

Years later we were watching 90210 [with my sister].

If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all have the same clothes and shoes, like these uniforms. I was in awe.

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

The reward is when you make the music, not when you get the medal.

I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.

Friendship, harmony, and leadership - pushin' people, just givin' people that push, like I would expect them to do for me, they'd do the same for me in return.

Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.

This is why Jessica Biel is a successful actress: because, despite the punchlines, you know how to tell a joke.

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

Anything is possible in this universe. It could be that you turn the chair around it's just a glove handcuffed to a bomb, like in Inspector Gadget.