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William Irwin Thompson Quotes

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

William Irwin Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: July 16, 1938

Topics

Love Roots Chaos Dangerous Rage Own

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into.

Jeremy London

Vanity Lift Kind Get Weights Really

I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself.

Matthew Perry

Myself Yourself School Thought Laugh

When I wrote 'Monsoon,' I always imagined the music video being shot in India. The song had so much to do with my time in India with my mother as well as leaving her in India during the monsoon season to visit my family in N.Y. It really was a dream come true when I was given the opportunity to shoot in India.

Amber Mark

Family Mother Music Opportunity Time

When the show started out, it was like all of a sudden we had to do 35 episodes and we had just a month and a half to write them, and it took me a while to realize that I was in charge.

Mike Judge

Me Write Realize Month Out Started

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Liza Minnelli

Good Alone Sitting Room Your

I met Kanye. I'm starstruck, man, but I stayed away from that guy. I didn't want him to go on a rant, go off on me. He did it at his wedding.

Jay Pharoah

Man Me Wedding Go Want Him

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

Dennis Kucinich

Politics World View Philosophy Looks

Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

Dennis Quaid

Golf Wave Magic You Down Taste

Montreal is just so multicultural and ethnic and diverse, and it's what makes us special. I say 'us' like I still live there, but I still do feel like a Montrealer.

Antoni Porowski

Live Feel Say Special Us Montreal

I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.

Peggy Johnson

Family Los Angeles Irish Outside Big

I think, in a lot of places, the solar panels are a badge of honor; they're trendy. If you go to Hawaii or Japan, people even install fake solar panels because it's cool and it's popular. And so I think solar panels have gotten a lot more attractive. They're sleek, black, they look good on a roof.

Lynn Jurich

Good People Cool Black Think Fake

I believe the auto industry is a competition of human resources, competition of funding, competition of technology - and the competition is international.

Li Shufu

Technology Competition Believe Human