Quotes About Paradox

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

When is there some discharge when. There never is.

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.

Not only is the past of a person with no memory inaccessible; his ability to think about the future is imperilled. Time travel, then, is ultimately - and paradoxically - an exercise in remembering. And without that capacity it simply cannot exist.

The simplest way out of the puzzle of time travel is to say that it can't be done. That's very likely the right answer. However, we don't know for sure.

Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

You can't have bad without good. You can't have right without wrong. You can't have fantastic without mundane. You need to experience all that to really earn the title of the film, 'Fantastic Four.'

I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive.

To be honest, I don't watch a lot of TV. It's kind of ironic because I'm on TV.

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.

Work was always necessary to survive. Then I decided the goal should be to survive without working. But now I have much more work than I had before. Hunting for freedom, I've found the real prison. but at least it's a prison I've chosen for myself.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

Toilets are the best place for awards.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Either you're standing under your halos, eyes up to heaven, or you're munching apples in their faces and flashing your bush. I'm not even sure they know which they prefer. The best you can do is choose when you change your costume.

India is beyond statement, for anything you say, the opposite is also true. It's rich and poor, spiritual and material, cruel and kind, angry but peaceful, ugly and beautiful, and smart but stupid. It's all the extremes.

India is beyond statement, for anything you say, the opposite is also true. It's rich and poor, spiritual and material, cruel and kind, angry but peaceful, ugly and beautiful, and smart but stupid. It's all the extremes. India defies understanding

Dying young can really help an art career along. It's the careerist's ultimate paradox.