Showing posts with label paradoxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paradoxes. Show all posts

Sunday, 17 October 2010

GEORGE CARLIN - Paradoxes and Quotes (Part 3)

While working for a radio station, Carlin began performing with Jack Burns as a comedy team. In the 1960s, he started his television shows. Little by little, he changes his style, routines and appearance. he lost TV bookings and eventually, he was charges with violating obscenity laws (indecent language and dressing strangely).

In the 80s and 90s, Carlin left and returned to the stage several times. He did HBO specials and FOX sitcoms and published his first book Brain Droppings.(To be continued)

We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudices. We write more, but learn less and plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men but small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the times of fancier houses, but broken homes. These are the days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer to quiet or kill.

Stay young! Keep cheerful friends. Keep learning. Enjoy the simple things in life. Tell the people you love that you love them.

Laugh! Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. Until it takes your breath away. It’s a moment life is measured by.

Remember !

Sunday, 22 August 2010

GEORGE CARLIN - Paradoxes and Quotes (Part 1)

George Carlin (1937 - 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author. He won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums comprising his black humour, thoughts on politics, the English language and some taboo subjects.

We laugh too little, read too little, and pray too seldom.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away.

The paradox on time is that we've learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life but not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to welcome a neighbour.