FastSaying

Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?


Margo Kaufman

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew t...
MARGARET MCMULLAN Why did you marry Dad, Mom?"
My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <...
MARGARET MCMULLAN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL Princeton did a great job capitalizing on the mistakes we made and that was a big reason why they we...
DAN KALLAUGHER The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - w...
JOHN GREEN And all at once I knew how Margo Roth Spiegelman felt when she wasn't being Margo Roth Spiegelman: s...
JOHN GREEN Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unpre...
EDITH WHARTON Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth...
ERIC HOFFER Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS (Strother) just had that confidence that she thought she was going to knock it in. (Sunday) she had ...
BARBARA TURNER Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Don't Just Let it Happen, Make it Happen!
JUAN A. JIMENEZ What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I w...
BARRY MCGUIRE Ignorance always makes people create an argument and it is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in i...
VIKRANT PARSAI She was really clear about that, she did not want it. We said okay, but you have to get enough calor...
MAGGIE MERMIN All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes ...
JAMIE OLIVER She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes ...
JAMIE OLIVER A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enoug...
JOHN C. MAXWELL So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, ...
NEIL GAIMAN Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're ...
DAVID PACKARD I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was...
KYRA SEDGWICK I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Why is man obliged to learn ignorance?
SORIN CERIN Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Did God create man, or did man create God? Either way, the decision needs to be reviewed.
ASHWIN SANGHI Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER I didn't expect it. I was kind of clueless. It was a big surprise to make it to state as a freshman....
CAITLIN SEED She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM You never know. This is not the time to do it, but she did it. I wasn't expecting it. She was feelin...
ANDY LEGGIO No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistak...
GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they we...
ÉMILE ZOLA I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a sing...
LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL My objective was not to get a big settlement. It was more to make a statement that what he did was w...
JEFF FLEMING To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN She was young and alive, untouchable. Why did she want to go?
COURTNEY SUMMERS I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected p...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS We had enough defensemen but not enough forwards and she seemed to be somebody who could make the mo...
KRISTIN STEELE It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made...
CALVIN JOHNSON I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things tha...
CARRIE RYAN Our equipment manager, Jason Pierce, thought it would show better on the jersey. I was totally suppo...
BOBBY ROSS They are not going to make any big mistakes giving up a big play, so what we had to do was be discip...
ERRON KINNEY She often wondered what the hell was wrong with men. Sex could be fun, natural, good. Why did they h...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN That was the defining thing to me about the whole trip - man did that, not Mother Nature.
CHRIS WHITE You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a...
PAULO COELHO She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If God is good, then why did he create man, the most cruel thing known to date?
PETER MIDTGARD Never fear to make mistakes; be courageous enough not to repeat it.
DEBASISH MRIDHA It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
ORNETTE COLEMAN When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER He made a mistake and he was punished for it. We all make mistakes. What's important is how you resp...
BYRON SAMUELS The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
PETER MCWILLIAMS That's an awfully talented team and we knew it was coming sooner or later. The key is to not make mi...
BRIAN CURRAN If bisexuality was normal, Elena wondered, why did bisexuals try to make everyone else bisexual? Or ...
JOYCE HABER In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of sha...
D.H. LAWRENCE What she did was a good thing. And she did it without any recognition. She wanted to do it because i...
KAREN PARKER He already thought she was a weirdo, and this was just going to make her seem that much weirder. Did...
RAINBOW ROWELL He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
PITTACUS LORE Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
LEMONY SNICKET She would get more excited and show more emotion when she would make the pass and earn an assist or ...
KATHLEEN SINRAM To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes,...
DAVID PACKARD Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant!

If you can honestly say that you are fully awar...
LORII MYERS Remove the temptation to settle for anything short of what you deserve.
LORII MYERS Your desire to succeed must overpower your fear of failure!
LORII MYERS the key, she was central to the grand jury investigation. The information she had -- it might have b...
JULIE MYERS I thought it was brave of Walter to allow the protagonist of the film to do things that she wishes s...
JENNIFER CONNELLY Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
MICHEL FOUCAULT There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be g...
KATE CHOPIN Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS... Their big girl was on Carly and it was tough on her, but she did a nice job of passing, and Brittany...
DAN CORBIN I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that's...
KEVIN GATES She was amazed Silveny had even let them get close enough to attach the reins. Clearly she needed to...
SHANNON MESSENGER We wanted to make a statement and show everyone how good we are. We did that on their home court and...
DERRICK BONNER Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot...
ANNE BRONTë The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up t...
TAYLOR SWIFT I don't think it was anything Stewart or David did, ... We just got off to a hot start and from ther...
MIKE WEIR An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of ...
TINA FEY Obviously at 11 she didn't smoke, she was against it. She was already responsible. She said: "I don'...
LUC BESSON A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ...
RICK RIORDAN We thought it was a fairly obvious out. I don't know why he did it or why people do, it's up to them...
ANDREW SYMONDS She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or...
VICTOR HUGO The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone,...
TERRY PRATCHETT Our hitters did a nice job of limiting their mistakes. That was a big factor in our being able to co...
GREG MURLEY This was something that was big. We knew it was going to be a challenge and we did what it took.
EVAN MALINGS It takes a big man to cry. It takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man and an ever bigger man t...
JACK HANDEY

More Margo Kaufman

I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and a man cle...
MARGO KAUFMAN The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
MARGO KAUFMAN Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
MARGO KAUFMAN I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people ...
MARGO KAUFMAN I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and a man cle...
MARGO KAUFMAN My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Ti...
MARGO JEFFERSON Even criticism is more interesting when the writer's authority does not only come through this o...
MARGO JEFFERSON Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours...
MARGO JEFFERSON Every mind is a clutter of memories, images, inventions and age-old repetitions. It can be a ghetto,...
MARGO JEFFERSON Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of priv...
MARGO JEFFERSON I do not regret the years I spent reading the traditional canon of white male writers in school. I d...
MARGO JEFFERSON Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility,...
MARGO JEFFERSON Michael Jackson loved epic symbols. In his shows and his videos, he always destroyed or salvaged wor...
MARGO JEFFERSON From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or op...
MARGO GEORGIADIS Michael Jackson was one of popular culture's greatest artists. Nobody danced better. Few sang mo...
MARGO JEFFERSON In many ways, everything about my upbringing decreed that I wouldn't write a memoir because in t...
MARGO JEFFERSON Since pre-Emancipation, black 'females' have had to fight for the whites-only privilege of b...
MARGO JEFFERSON The piece I most love wearing is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket... It...
MARGO JEFFERSON We Americans are childish about our celebrities and icons. We worship, then we denounce; we identify...
MARGO JEFFERSON Consumers have a different path to purchase. They don't shop less than they used to; it is just ...
MARGO GEORGIADIS In general, fashion is decorative, it's protective, it acknowledges that the world does involve ...
MARGO JEFFERSON I would certainly say that my life, and perhaps human life in general, follows an intricate pattern ...
MARGO JEFFERSON Clever of me to become a critic. We critics scrutinize and show off to a higher end. For a greater g...
MARGO JEFFERSON I'm a very promiscuous reader. My dad's a big science fiction fan, so I'd read 'Dune...
MARGO LANAGAN Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald appro...
MARGO JEFFERSON How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues ...
MARGO LANAGAN I first wrote about Michael Jackson in the 1980s. His skin was growing paler, his features thinner, ...
MARGO JEFFERSON Sometimes it feels as if the artist hasn't done the real work of engaging with the material. Fil...
MARGO JEFFERSON I was nearing the end of childhood when I started to pay real attention to jazz singers. Women excel...
MARGO JEFFERSON 'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. M...
MARGO JEFFERSON New Yorkers know how to borrow wildly. You know, Louis Armstrong was not a New York musician. He wen...
MARGO JEFFERSON Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.
MARGO JEFFERSON I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely into...
MARGO MACDONALD Once avant-garde artists receive official recognition, they start a double life. In one, they inspir...
MARGO JEFFERSON Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was kno...
MARGO JEFFERSON No society ever rights a wrong without finding a new one to put in its place
MARGO JEFFERSON You can see and smell the habitat. It's a very pungent perfume.
MARGO STAHL They had the foresight and donated the land.
MARGO STAHL As the years pass, I find that writers who were once central to me aren't anymore. I revered Yea...
MARGO JEFFERSON The percentage of fat in this product here is almost 50 percent fat. But it's turkey. But because it...
MARGO RODRIGUEZ Life is happening so make it happen before it's happened
MARGO VADER It's not enough any more for the government to publish dietary guidelines and point their finger at ...
MARGO WOOTAN I work in this area, and I don't even know what some of those things are referring to.
MARGO WOOTAN Schools can make money without selling junk food.
MARGO WOOTAN The definition is out of date and out of sync with current nutritional concerns for children,
MARGO WOOTAN It's as important for children to know how to prevent heart disease, cancer and diabetes as it is fo...
MARGO WOOTAN This means that the policy effectively does not address high schools at all because it won't affect ...
MARGO WOOTAN It's impressive that Kraft was able to do two 100 percent whole-grain cookies.
MARGO WOOTAN [Communities that do step up to reverse poor nutrition trends often face considerable opposition fro...
MARGO WOOTAN This is a good step toward reducing artery-clogging fat in french fries, but it doesn't make french ...
MARGO WOOTAN The money from soda contracts comes out of children's and parents' pockets. Coke, Pepsi, and other j...
MARGO WOOTAN New Dawn Coming
MARGO TIMMINS How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that gr...
MARGO LANAGAN My aids, or my commands to the horse, should not be visible to the naked eye. It's kind of like when...
MARGO DEWKETT It was great that we came from behind and had some adversity. It was a big win for us.
MARGO JONKER It had 822 calories and 32 grams of fat. So the calorie content was much higher than the bacon doubl...
MARGO RODRIGUEZ Disco-era nutrition standards don't make sense in 2006.
MARGO WOOTAN Privilege is provisional. It can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly, and summarily withdrawn.
MARGO JEFFERSON You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and...
MARGO JEFFERSON Growing old happens but growing up needn't happen
MARGO VADER I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som...
MARGO JEFFERSON Sweet Jane.
MARGO TIMMINS Thank God for jazz. It gave black women what film and theater gave white women: a well-lighted space...
MARGO JEFFERSON If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and '60s, you were, in pract...
MARGO JEFFERSON A Negro girl could never be purely innocent. The vengeful Race Fairy always lurked nearby; your pare...
MARGO JEFFERSON There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence i...
MARGO LANAGAN Wilson was a consummate entertainer. He truly loved to perform, and when he took the stage, he would...
MARGO LEWIS I need to acknowledge the toll certain parts of my life are taking on me. I have to do that, even if...
MARGO JEFFERSON I think it's too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask i...
MARGO JEFFERSON At the very least, noir offers an alternate reality - moments of real passion, a bleak code of honor...
MARGO JEFFERSON I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever...
MARGO JEFFERSON Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain...
MARGO JEFFERSON Many say that no real avant-garde - which I'll define as a combative group of free-thinking arti...
MARGO JEFFERSON heavily tattooed women can be said to control and subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing me...
MARGO DEMELLO Several elementary school teachers had described me as a 'future authoress or poetess.' Moth...
MARGO JEFFERSON I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who'd dare...
MARGO JEFFERSON Our officers worked tirelessly to ensure evidence is preserved and the birds are treated for their w...
MARGO CASTORENA We found all the training paraphernalia, boots, spurs and all the equipment that they need to train ...
MARGO CASTORENA If your laptop gets stolen, they still can't get to your data.
MARGO DAY There's a process of educating both the customer and the partners that serve them on the kinds of so...
MARGO DAY I am one of the few people that I know who has done the prevention, intervention and treatment. I so...
MARGO DEANE I would say since we've been doing it, at least 60 to 70 percent of the people who have completed th...
MARGO DEANE It's been a combination of issues for us. A lot of it depends on how we do in the circle, but we als...
MARGO JONKER We played extremely poor in Saturday's game. Defensively, offensively, the whole game was poorly pla...
MARGO JONKER Kent State is coming from behind and scoring a lot of runs. They are playing confidently. It should ...
MARGO JONKER We are beating ourselves. We're giving them too much, giving them too many opportunities. We need to...
MARGO JONKER In order for us to be effective as a pitching staff, we have to get ahead in the count. We have to m...
MARGO JONKER Obviously it's nice, but I've been fortunate to be in an environment that allows me to succeed. It's...
MARGO JONKER We'll have live entertainment, music, dancers, anything and everything keeping in the time frame of ...
MARGO JARVIS There's no doubt from this survey that people think the problems that led to the creation of the Cap...
MARGO FENN You get a lot more money than you put in - in services and actual mitigation money.
MARGO FENN This is a town project. It's the towns' call.
MARGO FENN I know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem, an inconvenience is losing a job. A pr...
MARGO DEWKETT And their first instinctual reaction is to flee. Everything we do in education is to teach the horse...
MARGO DEWKETT All of that snorting, it's just like an algebra problem. We're going to give him a job. By giving hi...
MARGO DEWKETT We've wanted to come back here since the end of last year.
MARGO MUHLBAUER I thought it was pretty cool. Not many people get a chance to do that.
MARGO MUHLBAUER I can't think of a better place to end it but Wells Fargo Arena.
MARGO MUHLBAUER We see each other at dance on Sundays and always talk about the big game. It's not just competition;...
MARGO MUHLBAUER I've been very fortunate to play with a lot of great players. They always seem to find me on the cou...
MARGO MUHLBAUER Our second half pressure defense helped us win the game.
MARGO MUHLBAUER We tried to stay focused after they surprised us with their out-side shooting in the first quarter.
MARGO MUHLBAUER As the service moved forward toward its powerful climax, the miracles would begin. Kathryn would sud...
MARGO MONG Not everyone was healed during these services. She would tell those who looked to her for a healing ...
MARGO MONG ... Her gradual ascent to stardom began right here in western Pennsylvania.
MARGO MONG This is a trigger time for youth to start to obsess about weight and body image.
MARGO MAINE This is a trigger time for youth to start to obsess about weight and body image. By the beginning of...
MARGO MAINE It happens to the best of us. When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to...
MARGO MACDONALD They are fantastic, a real rainbow alliance, with Muslims, Christians and a Jewish player joining to...
MARGO MACDONALD He was in hospital very near his home in Virginia.
MARGO LEWIS He was always in demand. He last performed at the end of 2004.
MARGO LEWIS It's very uplifting to see the response. People are learning about our history and how to care for t...
MARGO STRINGFIELD We don't know what, if anything, was taken. But it does look like there was thought to this. It was ...
MARGO STRINGFIELD The beach is Mother Nature's trail. You can walk for 3 miles to the St. Lucie Inlet State Park.
MARGO STAHL It was supposed to be a very friendly, very self-esteem building environment for women. Compared to ...
MARGO SCHLANGER If the alternative to a temporary race segregation is a riot, where people get hurt, then yeah, you ...
MARGO SCHLANGER It's not clear to me that the big loss to women is the loss of a woman justice, it's the loss of a m...
MARGO SCHLANGER It's got the exact same grams of fat. If we take the calories from fat, which are 30, and divide it ...
MARGO RODRIGUEZ We're confused because information on a food label is in a different language.
MARGO RODRIGUEZ He's the Bono of Canada. This sort of work that these guys do, they're not just talking about it all...
MARGO TIMMINS Everybody wants to change the world. But I guess how we want to change it is a little bit more quiet...
MARGO TIMMINS It's one of those songs that when we play for an audience it's interesting to see people's reactions...
MARGO TIMMINS I'd like to see a quiet album and go back to being sparse again, because this album is such a big al...
MARGO TIMMINS It's not that we don't want to be all over the radio, ... I'd love to have a hit single. However, I ...
MARGO TIMMINS Every so often in the last 20 years, Hollywood has called, ... And every



MARGO TIMMINS By 2010, the net reduction in global emissions from Europe meeting the Kyoto Protocol will be only 0...
MARGO THORNING A cooperative global approach to reducing emission growth is more likely to produce real emissions r...
MARGO THORNING The findings of our research suggest that an alternative approach (to climate change) is urgently ne...
MARGO THORNING We need to focus on things like the [Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate], whi...
MARGO THORNING It's just really gross to see kids who don't do a thing, while the grandpas and uncles are working h...
MARGO WILLIAMS I let her take control. The older kids listen to her. Sometimes, I feel like it's not my place. My p...
MARGO WILLIAMS It'll take months... and potentially years before the ultimate outcome is known. The management rema...
MARGO VIGNOLA Interviewer: So. Tell me about your mother.
Ezra: You're taping this, right?
Interviewer: ...
AMIE KAUFMAN Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.
HERBERT KAUFMAN Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is t...
HERBERT KAUFMAN Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending...
BEL KAUFMAN I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them a...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in Amer...
LLOYD KAUFMAN I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fiction...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rath...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way....
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Dislike is much easier to handle than sympathy.
AMIE KAUFMAN I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I&#...
LLOYD KAUFMAN What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their ...
PHILIP KAUFMAN But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference....
KENN KAUFMAN Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.
HERBERT KAUFMAN It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creati...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short.
AMIE KAUFMAN I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars.
AMIE KAUFMAN I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Forget everything else. Forget everyone else. You're exactly my kind of girl.
AMIE KAUFMAN There's no way to describe what I do. It's just me.
ANDY KAUFMAN Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufm...
D.J. KAUFMAN Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN We are what we love, not what loves us.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love your...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN It's about this guy who finds out that his girlfriend of two years has had this surgical procedure w...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and grat...
LLOYD KAUFMAN I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people ...
ANDY KAUFMAN Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Are you afraid?"

"Yes."

"Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms."...
AMIE KAUFMAN I don't think it's something to be portrayed in a positive way down at the Oceanfront where we're tr...
ADAM KAUFMAN Everybody has had labs where you can do testing.
ADAM KAUFMAN The winning team recognized the attack before the other ones. You had to send e-mail to the judges t...
ADAM KAUFMAN When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my...
ANDY KAUFMAN So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know ab...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there...
PHILIP KAUFMAN If you're cutting corners on things, someone may blow the whistle on you.
ALAN KAUFMAN A discharged employee leaves unhappy. Many people who are discharged, first thing they do is open th...
ALAN KAUFMAN When we are running full out, we average around 35 million gallons (of water) a week. Annually, we c...
ALEX KAUFMAN It's basically a typical eastern weather hiccup. This one definitely had some power behind it.
ALEX KAUFMAN That puts a smile on my face.
ALEX KAUFMAN I know a thousand different smiles, each with its own nuanced shade of meaning, but I don't know how...
AMIE KAUFMAN the code of a world he'd never been invited to join.
ANDREW KAUFMAN I look forward to coming in and cooking everyday. It just comes naturally.
ANDREW KAUFMAN When I was 30, I said 'enough of this. I decided it was time to grow up.
ANDREW KAUFMAN Exchanging ideas and techniques is motivating. There's always something new to learn.
ANDREW KAUFMAN There has been no global improvement on average. The average quality of governance worldwide has rem...
DANIEL KAUFMAN George Bush was called a lap dog for Ronald Reagan. You have to overcome that. You have to overcome ...
RON KAUFMAN I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut-or get angry fr...
ANDY KAUFMAN When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.
ANDY KAUFMAN My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should...
ANDY KAUFMAN I never told a joke in my life.
ANDY KAUFMAN There's no drama like wrestling.
ANDY KAUFMAN I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. ...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Eddie Beauchamp and Gordon Harrison have long served the University System of Georgia in a number of...
DANIEL KAUFMAN We look forward to a long-term partnership with W. P. Carey and appreciate the flexibility this tran...
BOB KAUFMAN I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much intere...
LLOYD KAUFMAN I'm interested in stories about people as we knew them in the near-recent future.
PHILIP KAUFMAN We want to offer families the opportunity to rehabilitate their communities.
DAVID KAUFMAN It reinforced what we were already doing.
CARYN KAUFMAN If there was any visage of bipartisanship left in this governor, I think he's just about put a nail ...
GALE KAUFMAN They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I t...
PHILIP KAUFMAN We're going to get a pump here. This water is not going anywhere here.
CAROLE KAUFMAN Of course, the Meryl Streep in the play is nothing like the real Meryl, and the proof of that is tha...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN I must admit, there's a little bit of 'this guy smells like a winner.' And that's aiding, I think, t...
RON KAUFMAN I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry ...
ANDY KAUFMAN