Fun Quotes - Page 339

Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

Sometimes I feel like the fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs.

There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.

My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of themselves for it. It's like, how obnoxious, how pretentious. And that's part of my mission as an artist is to kick down those people or make fun of that type of high horse attitude.

I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.

Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.

In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

Respect yourself as well as others; make commitments, not excuses, and make every day a fun day.

We are here to learn, to make a difference and to have fun.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

It would be fun to go back and see where all my songs stopped, because I think I'd have every number in the top 100. It never ceases to amaze me. It still hurts when one doesn't work, because you put your heart and soul into it.

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.