Tim Quotes

Love may be boundless and abundant, but time isn't. Time is finite.

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.

Failure in Innovation - it's a price worth paying.

Trying to be able to have, let's say, more than three partners was absolutely impossible, at least for my own relationships.

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.

There's lots and lots of guys out there. The question is trying to find the right one.

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those days are over! It's kind of an odd time. I guess it's kind of like writing.

I take the literary or textual aspect really seriously and I really enjoy writing weird album titles. I did a PhD; I enjoy writing.

I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars under my house.

I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician.

Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.

I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going to New Jersey - the world's loudest and biggest pipe organ.

Offness yields a hypnotic effect. The brain can see simplistic patterns that lock and it's boring after a while. I don't cater to that.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.

Most of the time, we write something and then figure out who would be best to do it.

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.

When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our stuff.

That kind of language is what makes us laugh. Like, "Well, just eFax that to me, and I'll take a look at it."

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.

I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!

At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.

When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

When you travel, specifically for our show, you get inspired by rest stops, Cracker Barrel. Middle-America people are perfect.

We, the comics that we like, we're all, like, post-humor.

When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.

Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.

I always liked records that didn't explain themselves too well - ones that you had to listen a few times.

I don't have a big hang-up about my body.

Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.

When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

The difference between night and day is, er, night and day.

If someone asks me a question, there might be a truthful answer and a correct answer.

It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it.

People have been asking me for a couple of years when I am going to retire, and I think that now is the right time.

I've had plenty of practice and I'm hitting the ball well. I've had no injury worries so I'm in good shape.

I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those.