George Meyer famous quotes

03-28-2025

Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.
-- George Meyer

#Writing #Reality #Balls
If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good
-- George Meyer

#Lying #Future #Men
The only rule was that the stuff had to be funny and pretty short. To me, the quintessential Army Man joke was one of John Swartzwelder's: 'They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?' It's a horrifying idea juxtaposed with something really banal-and yet there's a kind of logic to it. It's illuminating because it's kind of how Americans see things: Life's a big jumble, but somehow it leads to something I can consume. I love that.
-- George Meyer

#Coffee #Army #Men
Clever is the eunuch version of funny.
-- George Meyer

#Clever
Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.
-- George Meyer

#Eggs #Coward #Weapons
There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.
-- George Meyer

#Laughing #Release #Tension
I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.
-- George Meyer

#Catholic #Looks #Realizing
I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.
-- George Meyer

#Religious #Wonderful Friends #People
I don't know what the universe is all about, but to me, nothing is gained by slapping a God sticker on it. It has never been a comfort to me to believe there's an all-seeing eye in the sky.
-- George Meyer

#Believe #Eye #Sky
I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.
-- George Meyer

#Agnostic #Realizing #Position
I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.
-- George Meyer

#Book #Laughing #Perspective
You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.
-- George Meyer

#People #Suffering #Would Be
Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.
-- George Meyer

#Struggle #Men #Forever
I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.
-- George Meyer

#Girl #Baby #Religious
I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama.
-- George Meyer

#Individuality #Antagonism #Lama
The people who seem to have a lock on power get swept out in a couple of years. So it's naïve to keep swinging at the same targets over and over. It took me a long time to realize, but most of the shackles that I flailed against were just illusory.
-- George Meyer

#Couple #Years #Long
I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.
-- George Meyer

#Tradition #Social #Institutions
I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.
-- George Meyer

#Daughter #Long #Parenthood
Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.
-- George Meyer

#Giving #Three #Sometimes
I don't like that The Simpsons are spokespeople for Burger King and MasterCard and Butterfinger. In the first Gulf War, I was really upset that the Simpsons characters were being drawn on tanks and bombs. But those are things that I don't control.
-- George Meyer

#Kings #War #Character
I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.
-- George Meyer

#Creative #Brain #Together
To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.
-- George Meyer

#Running #Cat #Maturity
Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.
-- George Meyer

#Tv Shows #Tvs #Launching
There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.
-- George Meyer

#Way #Malaysia #My Own

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