To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?
'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes. You might say that the movie walks it like it talks it; I'm not sure what Pootie would say.
I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!
Most of my saucy comments are from gay guys. Some of them are pretty explicit in the things they say, especially on Twitter.
One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'
That says it all. When you say, 'Victory,' that says it all.
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.
The scary thing is I took 12 years of French, and I can barely say, 'My name is... ' And that's not because of the concussions.
I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
I was the oldest of seven kids, so I had no older brother who would say, 'Schmuck, don't do that.'
You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.
If we lose games, and I don't score a lot, they gonna say I'm not scoring enough.
It is a common thing for supporters of President Trump, even as early as when he was a candidate, to say, 'He fights.' And yes, he does fight. He fights everyone. He gets into all kinds of scraps that are pointless and unnecessary. He insults when he doesn't need to.
I learned that you have to say that you're a filmmaker. You're not a screenwriter; you're not a director for hire. You've got to take charge. You're a filmmaker, and you're going to make a film.
The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'
