Michael T. Weiss Quotes

When I was young, I was everywhere.

I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.

Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.

I like characters who have two different things going on, whether it is Robin from 'Top Of The Lake' having that strength juxtaposed with the vulnerability and being in pain, or whether it is Peggy from 'Mad Men' with her naivety and her sort of idiocy at times, combined with her intelligence and courage really to do what she did at that time.

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

You learn a lot as a kid, like you don't know anything. I didn't know what was gonna happen if I opened the door. I thought I was gonna be in another world somehow.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

It's just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong.

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

I am a Sagittarius. Two people live within me. One's a very savvy businessperson; the other's a party girl. Part of me is a very sensitive, connected, balanced person, and the other part is a selfish, fame-seeking asshole. Terrorist, really.

Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

When I first went to Europe, I thought I was going to move there. I was making plans to move to the south of Spain. It's such a cute, innocent thought. I think we all go through it.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided that it was because, imprisoned in the priceless, inquiring amber of Leonard's massive mind, underneath that bright investigative genius was a kind of willful innocence that might in lesser men be called stupidity. It was the seat and soul of that force which, down the millennia, had caused mankind to stick its fingers in the electric light socket of the Universe and play with the switch to see what happened - and then be very surprised when it did.

Every man needs his Siren to check his courage and strength when he hears her song in his travels through the unknown.

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.