The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The one good thing to be said about announcing yourself as a writer in the colonial Canadian fifties is that nobody told… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I had a babysitter when I was 12 or younger. I had a big crush on her. She was really spontaneous and… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
If someone said to me, 10 years ago, that I'd be spending effectively my retirement years in sci-fi and fantasy, I'd have… — Ian McElhinney Copy Share Image
The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Do you miss Wales?” Tessa inquired. Will shrugged lightly. “What’s to miss? Sheep and singing,” he said. “And the ridiculous language. Fe… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm not as klutzy as I used to be... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I… — Shelley Long Copy Share Image
There's no ironic appreciation of things we love, even of things that are in fact ridiculous, which a hipster might take and… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Emerald green eyes studied us from a face that could have been sculpted by one of the classical artists I so admired.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her. 'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain,… — Andy Richter Copy Share Image
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I don't take so-called "vacations" often. In fact vacations are more stressful than the lives my wife and I worked hard to… — Ryan McGinness Copy Share Image
I think that women, especially women in my job, come to me because they know I'm very loving and nonjudgmental and I'm… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
They're [[harmaceuticals companies] just making a killing out of people's death. And they're benefiting by people's suffering. And I find that obscene.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
I'm kind of conscious and aware of how ridiculous everyone involved with politics or talking about politics, especially on television, is -… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast. — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image