"Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence."

-- Donald A. Norman

#Clever Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.”
“I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.”
“And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.”
“A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. She is less likely to have an agenda than a young woman-no biological clock tick-tocking beside her lover's bed, no campaign to lead him to the altar, no rescue fantasies. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long a she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life, despite failures and false starts.”
“Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.”
“And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act. Whatever is happening in your life is what's going on on stage. So if you're angry in your life, then that's going to be on stage. If you're looking for the guy that's just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that's me.”

Source : "The Joy Behar Show", www.cnn.com. October 17, 2011.
“More than ever, I had to analyze my mental state over the past couple of years because of all the things that happened since the last album came out. Just being surrounded by lots of noise - good and bad - and still being able to try to hold onto some kind of identity for myself.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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