Quotes about "Life Wisdom"

As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember. ”

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons. ”

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing. ”

I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living. ”

It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life. ”

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction. ”

The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra! ”

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. ”

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. ”

I just felt that I might to go to university and get some real life. It wasn't stimulating in the same way. I loved being at Bristol, but I missed the thrill of being on set. ”