George Carlin Quotes

My approach to politics is that I never said I'm smart. But why aren't I allowed to write about my experience?

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

In each separate thing that you do consider the matters which come first, and those which follow after, and only then approach the thing itself.

Cuckoo!"
"Cuckoo!"
While I meditated
on that theme
day dawned.

What is a homeland? It is a place that enables people to blossom, and not a place in which people serve the flag. In my poem, Cease-fire with the Mongolians, I say that I am going to make socks out of the flag. My life's work is not on behalf of a flag.

I want to put out the fires of Hell, and burn down the rewards of Paradise. They block the way to Allah. I do not want to worship from fear of punishment or for the promise of reward, but simply for the love of Allah.

Caballito negro.
¿Dónde llevas tu jinete muerto?

Freddie Mercury was - and remains - my biggest influence. The combination of his sarcastic approach to writing lyrics and his 'I don't give a fuck' attitude really inspired my music.”

Watch the costs and the profits take care of themselves.

Someone is saying we are contemplating sending aid to help the Pakistani refugees. I hope to hell we’re not.

Day after day
I turn on the machines,
I dispense their immense memory,
every day
I fire up the motors,
then inside I switch myself off.
...

Like a 'Fuck You' for Christmas, his gift is a curse

O Dhū Kaffayn we are not your worshipers. Our birth is more ancient than yours. Indeed I stuffed your heart with fire.

The head tumbles between the legs
like a wooden ball
you fall, dark night
in the eyes,
the door a span away
inaccessible
you are on your knees
...

I felt so aimless — like a tennis ball, bouncing, bouncing — I began to wonder where I'd land.

Whoever criticizes others must have something to replace them. Criticism without suggestion is like trying to stop flood with flood and put out fire with fire. It will surely be without worth.