Quotes About Reflection

When I see some of the pitches which my father played on, I think that it must have been a different game.

Sometimes you have to throw 120 pitches to figure yourself out.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

I think it's a pity for him that my father didn't have the pleasure of seeing me grow up. I think he missed out on something. But it doesn't matter. It's boring. I don't have any anger about it.

I don't want to look back on my career at some point and say, 'What a pity, I came close a few times, but it was never good enough.'

If I had to feel one thing towards Jim Hellwig, I guess it would be pity a little bit.

I always think 'Pity the Child' is a goodie. And I've always liked a song called 'Heaven Help My Heart,' which is quite a corny number.

I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives.

To look back and know that I have had a pivotal role in the development of comics is something I'm very proud of, although it's not something I think about unless someone brings it up.

What I wonder most about the Anthropocene is not when did it start - but when, and how, will it end? Will it end? Or is it possible that our own growing awareness of our role on Earth can itself play a pivotal role in shaping the outcome toward one that we would desire?

I dream about 'Cheers.' Like when you go on a diet and you dream of pizza. I always think of those wonderful years. I loved working on it.

I remember where I'm from. It's like, 'Dude, you used to work at Pizza Hut.' I still have the hat.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

There's a time and place for everything, but as I get older, I like finding those human moments and really connecting. Maybe I'm not as cool as I once was.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better.

I think that after divorce, I took my life a little bit more seriously, because you have to face endings in a way that you maybe never - death in one thing, but an ending in your own chapter. It's so clearly placed there for you with divorce.

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

All these cities I go to, I never see them. They may be the most beautiful places in the world, but I'll just usually go to the nearest bar. I need a couple of hours by myself.

Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.