Quotes About Reflection

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

When I was younger I wanted to be a caricaturist. In the end, I've become a caricature.

There is nothing worse than bringing up the 'good old days.' To me, that's the ultimate acknowledgment of failure.

The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The products of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations.

to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, [and] criticise after dinner...

Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one's breath, sucking the life-blood from one's own heart and mixing it with the poison of misanthropy and despair.

In our reflecting and reasoning age, a man is not worth much who cannot give a good reason for everything, no matter how bad or crazy. Everything in the world that has been done wrong, has been done wrong for the very best of reasons.

Last words are for fools who haven't said enough

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life and his relations with his kind.

A slug is always on its own. It is a lonely insect.

Cher sang the song "If I Could Turn Back Time" about how she wished she could turn back time just so she could stop an argument that she'd had. If this is the sort of stupid thing people would be doing with time travel, I don't think we should encourage it.

How would I know which one I was?

Luke mentioned that a lot of people go to the Kumbh Mela festival to 'find themselves'. That's a saying I've never understood. If I did want to find myself, I don't think I'd find me at a festival with 20 million other people. I hate crowds. The

Thinking is underrated. I don't think thinking is a popular pastime these days due to the fact there's always something else on offer that you could be doing instead. Maybe people also don't like to do it as much as it's now harder due to noise.

Normally you can't hear your own voice cos you're talking over it

Maybe this is how Michael Jackson came up with his moonwalk. Maybe he was acting out a time when he stepped in dogshit and tried to get it off his shoes.

The best thing about me is probably my eyes, but then I suppose my eyes would think that, as it's them that are looking at them.

I must have had about 30 to 40 people surrounding me. I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him.

Karl Pilkington

People say having kids is life changing, well that doesn't necessarily mean a good thing, does it? I could take one of my legs off. That would change me life.

Gr?matas ir spogu?i: taj?s var redz?t tikai to, kas jau ir tev? paš?.

So this is what it's like to be in love? he mused quietly. And then he frowned. Damn. Now what do I do?

Wisely and slow. They stumble that ran fast. — William Shakespeare