'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered...
SETH MACFARLANE At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and w...
SETH MACFARLANE I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cr...
SETH MACFARLANE I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The O...
SETH MACFARLANE I always thought it would be funny to have the Parents Television Council write an episode of 'F...
SETH MACFARLANE 'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't g...
SETH MACFARLANE If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.
SETH MACFARLANE The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little ants...
SETH MACFARLANE I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any di...
SETH MACFARLANE Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
SETH MACFARLANE People do that on Facebook and it's the dumbest thing in the world. I don't care what your d...
SETH MACFARLANE The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by c...
SETH MACFARLANE The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
SETH MACFARLANE If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And...
SETH MACFARLANE We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horrib...
SETH MACFARLANE The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind o...
SETH MACFARLANE When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very littl...
SETH MACFARLANE I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.
SETH MACFARLANE Every year, the Friday before the new Saturday-morning shows would premiere, the networks would do t...
SETH MACFARLANE I was a big Fred Flintstone fan.
SETH MACFARLANE The resistance to science is idiotic.
SETH MACFARLANE I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future,...
SETH MACFARLANE The only problem is time.
SETH MACFARLANE Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to re...
SETH MACFARLANE The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted,...
SETH MACFARLANE Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remai...
SETH MACFARLANE I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?'...
SETH MACFARLANE If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch i...
SETH MACFARLANE What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
SETH MACFARLANE The success of 'The Simpsons' really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in ani...
SETH MACFARLANE Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so...
SETH MACFARLANE I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
RACHAEL MACFARLANE I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, e...
RACHAEL MACFARLANE I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we coul...
RACHAEL MACFARLANE Paths are the habits of a landscape. They are acts of consensual making. It's hard to create a footp...
ROBERT MACFARLANE Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
ROBERT MACFARLANE After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it's very diffic...
LUKE MACFARLANE The thing about watching a show about the Iraq war, especially for an American audience, is that it ...
LUKE MACFARLANE Gay marriage - it's not about two people being gay: it's about two people who love each othe...
LUKE MACFARLANE I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, ab...
RACHAEL MACFARLANE Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discov...
ROBERT MACFARLANE I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and archit...
LUKE MACFARLANE We swerved in here when we saw it for this price.
CATHY MACFARLANE We hit their target of $176 million, and again, Northwest, they do not want to acknowledge any credi...
STEVE MACFARLANE Making this show has definitely given us greater respect and empathy for what real soldiers do.
LUKE MACFARLANE I think the first table read I ever did, my hand was vibrating the whole time.
LUKE MACFARLANE This is the human paradox of altitude: that it both exalts the individual mind and erases it. Those ...
ROBERT MACFARLANE But Longinus and his intellectual descendants had been concerned with the Sublime as a literary effe...
ROBERT MACFARLANE The unknown is so inflammatory to the imagination because it is an imaginatively malleable space: a ...
ROBERT MACFARLANE As de Saussure said, risk-taking brings with it its own reward: it keeps a "continual agitation aliv...
ROBERT MACFARLANE The world economy is growing at an above average pace for the fourth successive year and, significan...
IAN MACFARLANE It is the best monetary policy regime we have experienced and the best one available.
IAN MACFARLANE Realistically, in terms of any significant quantity we are probably looking at some time past 2010.
IAN MACFARLANE Australia is already fully committed in terms of uranium production through until about 2008, bearin...
IAN MACFARLANE With strong investment growth and an expected improvement in exports, our forecast for the economy o...
IAN MACFARLANE It is quite possible that the rise in household debt ratios could go a good distance further. The ri...
IAN MACFARLANE The real emissions are coming from industry. And it's industry which needs to embrace the technology...
IAN MACFARLANE There is a great deal of uncertainty around migration, each person has their own range of reasons (f...
MARCO MACFARLANE The weekend Hurricane Katrina hit, more than 53 Americans died over there.
LUKE MACFARLANE The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, ...
ROBERT MACFARLANE You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And th...
SETH For me, the very last great strip is 'Peanuts.' After 'Peanuts,' there are a very fe...
SETH When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laugha...
SETH I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of ...
SETH Human insulin differs from other mammalian types by having a different C-terminal amino acid on the ...
FRANK MACFARLANE BURNET The production of antibody is not the only, nor I believe the most important, manifestation of immun...
FRANK MACFARLANE BURNET Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of libe...
FRANK MACFARLANE BURNET I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.
SETH ROGEN I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku...
VIKRAM SETH When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened,...
VIKRAM SETH I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reform...
VIKRAM SETH If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, wh...
VIKRAM SETH You can talk good ideas out of existence.
VIKRAM SETH Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
VIKRAM SETH Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of...
VIKRAM SETH I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
VIKRAM SETH As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the curre...
VIKRAM SETH I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
VIKRAM SETH The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying on...
VIKRAM SETH It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time t...
VIKRAM SETH Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story,...
VIKRAM SETH I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
VIKRAM SETH Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or ...
VIKRAM SETH I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
VIKRAM SETH In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
VIKRAM SETH I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or wat...
VIKRAM SETH Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are alre...
VIKRAM SETH My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
VIKRAM SETH The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
VIKRAM SETH I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
VIKRAM SETH I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
VIKRAM SETH The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources ...
SETH SHOSTAK If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in E...
SETH ROGEN The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there'...
SETH GODIN I loved the Rumble that Shawn Michaels won. Bulldog threw him over, and he hung on by the skin of th...
SETH ROLLINS Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1...
SETH SHOSTAK It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages ...
SETH SHOSTAK Before I discovered CrossFit, I was really just doing regular bodybuilding, didn't understand at...
SETH ROLLINS Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told....
SETH GODIN Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the t...
SETH GODIN A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an id...
SETH GODIN The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.
SETH GODIN My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improve...
SETH GODIN One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabular...
SETH GODIN At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
SETH GODIN The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...
SETH GODIN True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will...
SETH BROWN God save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETH If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to k...
SETH EISENBERG Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.
SETH HOFFMAN Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pre...
SETH GODIN And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change p...
SETH GODIN Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to ...
SETH SHOSTAK When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics...
SETH SHOSTAK It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormo...
SETH SHOSTAK My styles range quite a bit. I go for an all-around kind of fan. Never wanted to be the dude that co...
SETH ROLLINS Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives ra...
VIKRAM SETH Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource ...
SETH SHOSTAK It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contr...
SETH SHOSTAK The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
SETH GODIN I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designer...
SETH GREEN A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in o...
SETH SHOSTAK Working with Al Pacino was an amazing experience. He's such an amazing guy. He's an incredib...
SETH NUMRICH I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something...
SETH ROGEN Are two eyes, four appendages and an upright posture really essential for any creature that can ace ...
SETH SHOSTAK For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment...
SETH BERKLEY The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search...
SETH SHOSTAK 'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love t...
SETH SHOSTAK The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense...
SETH LOW You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop f...
SETH BERKLEY I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the wor...
SETH BERKLEY When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course...
SETH BERKLEY Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher...
SETH BERKLEY History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world resp...
SETH BERKLEY I was a serial monogamist.
SETH BERKLEY In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has d...
SETH BERKLEY I wish we could have state-of-the-art hospitals in every corner of the earth... but realistically, i...
SETH BERKLEY We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 3...
SETH BERKLEY Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are ...
SETH BERKLEY When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected m...
SETH BERKLEY Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our pro...
SETH BERKLEY The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. It mutates fur...
SETH BERKLEY You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens...
SETH BERKLEY New vaccines are being developed all the time, which could save many more lives and dramatically imp...
SETH BERKLEY Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to th...
SETH BERKLEY The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes fro...
SETH BERKLEY Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body t...
SETH BERKLEY Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
SETH BERKLEY In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rura...
SETH SHOSTAK Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified ...
SETH SHOSTAK Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed ...
SETH SHOSTAK I've done bingo halls and tents in front of 10 people with a cow mooing in the background. Doing...
SETH ROLLINS My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's eve...
SETH MEYERS By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean t...
SETH SHOSTAK These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the...
SETH LOW The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not ...
SETH SHOSTAK We're pushing the limits of what a game is, and they think I'm beyond this limit. There will...
SETH PRIEBATSCH In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the sa...
SETH GODIN The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surpris...
SETH SHOSTAK When my girlfriend and I talk about being happy, I'll get choked up, which I think is the greate...
SETH MEYERS The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the come...
SETH MEYERS Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
SETH GODIN Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize ce...
SETH SHOSTAK People recognise me and come up to me sometimes, but I'm not like George Clooney.
SETH ROGEN Are we the only members of the Galaxy that can actually understand what a galaxy is? Could Homo sapi...
SETH SHOSTAK Please, please be very, very diligent in what you do. Your actions could affect more than just yours...
BENNIE SETH If you live in a county where they do allow you to do outdoor burning and you know you have a lot of...
BENNIE SETH They're expecting and predicting a very dry early summer, so we need to begin thinking about how we'...
BENNIE SETH We have been completely overwhelmed by the generosity of the citizens of Jacksonville.
BENNIE SETH A lot of the food we sent over with the firefighters they shared with desperate citizens of Mississi...
BENNIE SETH All of our folks have returned, except of maybe about 10. So, we're ready and staffed up.
BENNIE SETH It will be the mother of all telescopes, and you can bet it will do for astronomy what genome sequen...
SETH SHOSTAK The fact that we can't easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millenni...
SETH SHOSTAK Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors r...
SETH SHOSTAK I don't avoid carbs. I don't avoid protein. I think it's just, again, about balance and ...
SETH ROLLINS It's always a tough call deciding whether, as a scientist, you should argue publicly with the cr...
SETH SHOSTAK 'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this...
SETH GABEL Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's ...
SETH GODIN I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
VIKRAM SETH I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my...
SETH SHOSTAK Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaran...
SETH SHOSTAK The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billio...
SETH SHOSTAK The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining t...
SETH SHOSTAK Ever since the infamous quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the feds had insisted that TV game shows be...
SETH SHOSTAK The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.
SETH ROGEN After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.
SETH ROGEN Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
SETH GODIN When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only ...
SETH GODIN Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and au...
VIKRAM SETH I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the...
SETH GREEN I've noticed that girls between like 20 and 30 seem to know 'Can't Hardly Wait.' I g...
SETH GREEN In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and co...
VIKRAM SETH Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or dr...
SETH SHOSTAK I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in ...
SETH SHOSTAK The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the law...
SETH SHOSTAK The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could...
SETH SHOSTAK We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove t...
SETH SHOSTAK Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifte...
SETH SHOSTAK My biological dad was Armenian. My last name is Lopez, and I have a darker complexion, which throws ...
SETH ROLLINS