"Did you ever look at your watch,..." - Quote by George Carlin
Did you ever look at your watch, and you look away... and you don't know what time it is?
More by George Carlin
“How do you write zero in Roman numerals?”
“There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine ... been here 4 1/2 billion years. We've been here, what, a 100,000 years, maybe 200,000. And we've only been engaged in heavy industry a little over 200 years. 200 years versus 4 1/2 billion. And we have the conceit to think that somehow we're a threat? The planet isn't going away. We are.”
“Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.”
More on Observation
“Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.”
“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it”
“There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.”
More on Mind
“Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.”
“There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what is right when others explain it to them, and finally those that are capable of neither one nor the other.”
“Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.”