Oskar Homolka famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  • As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

  • For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves. All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.

  • Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital.

  • If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

  • The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

  • No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

  • When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.

  • Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.

  • The best I fight is when I'm just there being a competitor and enjoying myself.