Joseph Barbera Quotes

Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who painted them, what they mean.

There has always been in history some people who think in the Stone Age.

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years.

Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50 between the men and the women - the man's 50 percent share was to sit in the woods with a sharp stick, waiting for something to hunt to wander by, and the woman's 50 percent was to do everything else.

I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages, I should probably have gone about preaching and got myself burnt or hanged.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't. It was like my head was going to burst - there were so many things I wanted to write all at once. I had so many ideas, jammed up. It was like they just needed permission to come out.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.

International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years.

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

Maybe it's just a matter of getting older and being aware that the market for medium-budget and low-budget films, which is of course what I spent most of my life making, has diminished. And maybe the quantity of ideas has diminished a little bit.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.

I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

Everything starts with writing.

You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?