Notable Quotes
· GEORGE CARLIN ·
“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.”
“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.”
“Distracted from distraction by distraction.”
“The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining that it was all necessary, a middle step in an evolution from an innocent child to an intelligent, powerful being…
“Nothing can last forever. There isn’t any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn’t fade out at last.”
“Man’s desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.” …
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
“If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.”
A small number of people have seen me cry An even smaller group have heard me say I want to die I live now in a small town that seems behind the times The Los Angeles traffic no longer keeps me up at night At work last night someone mentioned Manson bit the…
“Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one’s focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming data collection into bias confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance.”
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”