Quotes About Judgment

Everyone's supposed to stay in their lines and be neat. 'You're a rapper. You're supposed to rap, carry a boom box, wear chains, and go to the club - that's all you do. What are you doing collecting art? What are you talking about? Wait a minute, you're getting out of the zone.' People hate when people cross lines.

If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewriter. If you're an umpire, they give you an unseen object and they call it a strike zone, and nobody seems to agree with you no matter what you call.

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

I don't think you can set up a computer to do a strike zone on a guy who's 6-foot-5 and then a guy who's 5-8. Where does it draw the line? One guy stands tall, and another squats down, and it changes the lines. Nah. I still love the umpires; they do a great job. I don't have a problem with any of that.

When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.

Football has end zones and goal posts; basketball has the hoop, and hockey the goal cage. Baseball is the only game with an imaginary box: the strike zone, which the umpire determines at his own discretion.

I think it's so important when you're playing a character that you can't judge the person you're playing at all. It's a judgment-free zone. You have to just go for it.

When I would go over to friends' houses, and they would be zoning out to Mario Brothers, I just found it the most distasteful thing.

More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That's where I got the looks like I was from the zoo.

When I was younger, I had such awful, poisonous things written about me: male critics likening me to unattractive animals, and suggesting I should be in a zoo.

The absent are always wrong.

Doing what is right isn't the problem; it's knowing what is right.

For fools admire, but men of sense approve.

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves.

Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.

I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?

He that believeth not shall be damned.

A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

When you buy, use your eyes and your mind, not your ears.

When you go to buy use your eyes, not your ears.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.