Vi Hart Quotes

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

If you wish for peace, understand war.

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.

Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids' reaction to that divorce.

I think all women in all industries have more obstacles than men.

Everybody that's successful lays a blueprint out.

Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?

Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.

My son is becoming me - just a silly, silly prankster guy.

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.

Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

I don't like to hear woman argue...it makes my balls itch.

One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.

I just want to be a great example to younger kids.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

Just do exactly what you think is unique, fun and specific to your personality, that others aren't doing.

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

My lady makes me do it. I sang Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard".

I feel like a big trend is just to model your success off someone else and I don't think that ever works in the long run.

I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.

As far as I know, no one in the Kaufman or Hart clan was the basis for anyone in the play. I think we all wish we had a Grandpa, Penny, and Mr. De Pinna in our families.

Love me, that's all I ask of you...

Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in.

Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller!

Everywhere you look on the planet people are using drums to alter consciousness.

Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.

I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

If you're not going to win there is no point in fighting.

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

Consistency is a huge thing at the top. It's hard to get to a good level, but once you get to a certain level, there's people who want your place.

If true love were only about feelings, Jesus would have been hugged to death for our redemption. Thank God for His cross this and every day.

Every top team has got at least one top keeper. You need people to move, managers to change. You need something to happen for something to happen. You can't just charge in somewhere.

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

Friday and Saturday nights have a funny way of revealing what we really believe on Sunday mornings.

You don't become a saint by comparing yourself to a sinner.

Homosexuality is the handiwork of Satan.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.