“As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just… get better.”
Source: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
“As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just… get better.”
Source: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
“If you know a better place to live right now than this country, get a ticket and try to get there.”
Adress to Stanford Student Body, 1940. "Ray Lyman Wilbur Taken By Death", Los Angeles Times, June 27, 1949
The Observer (1964-12-27)
Misattributed to George Bernard Shaw on The West Wing, Season 2, Episode 14: The War At Home. Fictional President Bartlett, smoking a cigarette, spoke the second half of the quote and attributed it to Shaw. His chief of staff disputed whether it was Shaw, and the President concurred.
“All I'm saying is, if you celebrate Festivus, you may live a little longer.”
Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us (2005)
Context: All I'm saying is, if you celebrate Festivus, you may live a little longer.
You are getting back to the essentials, to the days of gods on mountaintops and howling wolves. Because you are saying the holidays are in the heart, a celebration of being alive with our fellow humans. For that purpose, an aluminum pole will do just as well as anything else — as long as it's not stuck in the wrong place.
“Our tools keep getting better, and as a result of that, our lives keep getting better.”
1990s, Schafer interview (1995)
“The more you read and write, the better you think and live.”