Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I look like everyone.

I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

If everything is the same, nothing is special.

Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

I try to stay pretty level-headed and just do what I have to do.

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

That is what all of us must learn to do in the United States; to limit objectives, to get ourselves away from the absolute, to find out what is within our powers.

I am just like everyone else.

In this business, you can't get too attached to something.

I try to play each ball on its merit.

Camo is almost like a solid. It is the perfect uniform: you can wear camo in any application and it is always right.

In every match, there are difficult decisions; sometimes they go in your favour and sometimes against. You need to be able to accept them.

I think I'm pragmatic.

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.

I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.

Efficiency obliterates identity

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

People have such a distinctive look to them these days. Whatever image they're doing, a lot of the time it sums up their character a bit. There are not many individual people anymore - they dress the same as their friends. It's a bit weird; everybody is trying to be different, but then they're exactly the same as whatever mob they hang out with.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.

In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.