Mary Wilson Little Quotes

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under the ruins of the churches, that have themselves crumbled together over them; we may fancy the life after death to be as a second life, into which man enters in the figure, or the picture or the inscription, and lives longer there than when he was really alive. But this figure also, this second existence, dies out too, sooner or later. Time will not allow himself to be cheated of his rights with the monuments of men or with themselves.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.

I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

We had all this kind of freedom and 'get out of your head' kind of stuff and at the same time, we were trying to establish ourselves in the business. These two things are really difficult to bring together.

Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.

When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.

Yes, I am going to join the Majority and you know I have always preferred Minorities.

Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.

There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.

...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'