Sam Quotes
I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start.
They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff.
We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.
Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.
In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.
I'd like to know how to catch a girl. I've caught frogs, I've caught snakes, earthworms.
If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
Love songs in particular are so compelling because love is probably the strongest emotion you can have, and I think it's relatable to absolutely everyone, whether it's unrequited love or love.
Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.
The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.
Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
With any other celebrity, people come up and say, 'Hey, I really like your work.' But with my fans, when they see me, they don't even say hello. They just go, 'AWWWWWGHGHHHGHGHRRR!'
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Bullies are masters at holding others responsible for their misbehavior. Instead of claiming "the devil made me do it", they argue "You made me do it".
What did I want with prestige? The British Open paid the winner $600 in American money. A man would have to be two hundred years old at that rate to retire from golf.
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.
I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.
