I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.
If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old, we wouldn't be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
There is a directory where you can explore every single person who has gone through YC and a private forum that only founders can participate in.
If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.
When we say 'less fortunate,' we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the poor are generally 'less fortunate' only in terms of genetics. They are certainly not less fortunate in the amount of help they receive.
All too often, lotteries only add to the problem of the financially disadvantaged by taking money from them and giving nothing of value in return.
The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world.
The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no matter how soberly the financial experts dress, no matter how dry their language, the economy they worship can only ever be as plausible as an episode of 'SpongeBob SquarePants.'
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
