Ethan > Ethan's Quotes

“I've never understood people who remember childhood as an idyllic time.”
― Bill Watterson

“We all want to have that magical place to disappear to.”
― Fairuza Balk

“I have a very simple belief about acting. The job of the actor is to play someone who they are not.”
― Harry Shearer

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
― Dr. Seuss

“I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
― George Carlin

“Nobody should be sure they have God on their side.”
― Stellan Skarsgård

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“You know what I like about summer days? They're just made for doing things... even if it's nothing. Especially if it's nothing.”
― Bill Watterson

“For no very good reason, I have never been fond of the number four, which has always struck me as a rather hard and unforgiving number.”
― J.K. Rowling

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'.”
― Seth MacFarlane

“The only problem is time.”
― Seth MacFarlane

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“If you literally believe the story of Noah, try getting a monkey in a car during a storm. It's almost impossible. Now do it one more time.”
― Seth MacFarlane

“When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.”
― Seth MacFarlane

“I'm afraid I was a little abrupt recently with a producer who sent me a screenplay. It was rubbish, really. I sent it back with a polite rejection. Then he came back with the plea that 'we tailored it just for you.' I replied simply, 'But no one came to take the measurements.”
― Alec Guinness

“God, to me, is pretty much an idea. God, to me, is pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.”
― Seth Green

“I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.”
― Marilyn Manson

“I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.”
― Marilyn Manson

“People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.”
― Marilyn Manson

“Deep down, most adults hate people who go against the grain.”
― Marilyn Manson

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

“You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!”
― Bill Watterson

“You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.”
― Alan Watts

“How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgemental ghost?”
― Dan Barker

“I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
― Robin Williams

“The Times reports I've made £4.5 million in the past year (from my Star Wars income). Where do they get such nonsense?”
― Alec Guinness

“Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.”
― Jon Stewart