Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity.

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Mark: Hey, did you see Carl wearing Claire's sweatshirt the other day? Julie: They're going out; they can do that. Me: Still, I guess it's a good thing Claire doesn't wear skirts that often...

If crime fighters fight crime, and fire fighters fight fire, then what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that to us, do they?;"George Carlin

What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.

I am so happy for Tom and Cindy, and I am grateful that they can now put this two-year saga behind them, and move on in life.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Did you ever notice the people who are most adamantly against abortions are people so ugly you wouldn't want to touch them in the first place?;"George Carlin

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Spackler IT'S IN THE HOLE.

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

Carlie: Dave's asexual. Lisa: That's unfortunate... for you.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

We have lingered long enough on the shores of the Cosmic Ocean.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Carlyle said, 'A lie cannot live'; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

We make the world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.

Carl would have to be fast to beat the stranger. Real fast. 'Draw,' said the stranger. Carl went for his gun, but then 'Hey, where did all these angels come from'

Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Sandy Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course Carl Spackler Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they'll lock me up and throw away the key. Sandy Not golfers, you great fool. Gophers. THE LITTLE BROWN, FURRY RODENTS. Carl Spackler We can do that. We don't even need a reason.

I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it-George Carlin

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Wise business management, and more particularly what is spoken of as safe and sane business management ... reduces itself in the main to a sagacious use of sabotage.

Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.

Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.