About Author : Andrew Schneider is an Emmy Award-winning American screenwriter and television producer, whose credits include writing for The Sopranos, Northern Exposure, and Alien Nation. He frequently co-writes episodes with his wife, Diane Frolov. Schneider was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for best dramatic series for his work on the sixth season of The Sopranos.
Andrew Schneider Quotes and Quotations
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning am I prepared to lift off.
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people well two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.
You’ve been listening to the adagio from Beethoven’s th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it and I’ve often wondered if that didn’t help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond.
The fact that we don’t know this man isn’t important really. Cause his experience is our experience and his fate is our fate. Vani tass vani tatum et omni i vani tass says the preacher. All is vanity I think that’s a pretty good epitaph for all of us. When we’re stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame family friends we all face death alone. But it’s that solitude in death that’s our common bond in life. I know it’s ironic but that’s just the way things are. Vani tass vani tatum et omni i vani tass. Only when we understand all is vanity only then it isn’t.
I am going to concentrate on what’s important in life. I’m going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I’m going to keep death right here so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else I’ll see death and I’ll remember.
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt what would you save The cat you would save the cat because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It’s just paint on a canvas ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It’s just to destroy life.
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud not have us grovelling in it.
We hold in our hands the most precious gift of all Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us.
You bluffed me I don’t like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.
Men are confused. They’re conflicted. They want a woman who’s their intellectual equal but they’re afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate but then they hate her for being weak. It’s an ambivalence that goes back to a man’s relationship with his mother. Source of his life center of his universe object of both his fear and his love.
People are simply incapable of prolonged sustained goodness.
It’s no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.
The day is coming and it ain’t going to be long when you ain’t even gonna have to leave your living room. No more schools nor more bodegas no more tabernacles no more cinneplexes. You’re going to snuggle up to your fiber optics baby and bliss out.
This is Chris-in-the-Morning with the weather and time hours later than it was yesterday and cold.
There’s a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.
By mid-November I always like to have an extra pounds on me.
If you’re going to be a healer it’s not enough to read books and learn allegorical stories. you need to get your feet wet get some clinical experience under your belt.
Death is the enemy. I spent years of my life singlemindedly studying practicing fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It’s totally exhilarating and I feel very lucky to be here. Very very lucky.
Well you’re either lovers or you’re wanting to be lovers or you’re trying not to be lovers so you can be friends but any way you look at it sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow like an undertow.
Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it it’s like music. The plants the creatures the ones we see the ones we don’t see it’s like one big pulsating symphony.
Life’s dirty. Life’s unclean you know. It’s birth it’s sex it’s the intestinal tract. One big squishy unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know dust to dust worms crawl in worms crawl out right Even though we know that we still walk the walk we still live the life. We’re like a bunch of little kids. Little kids you know we jump in this big old pond of mud and we’re slapping it all over our face rubbing our hair all down our backs and we’re making these glorious gooey mud pies. That’s us.
Weird isn’t it Somehow in the dead of winter when its below so cold your words just freeze in the air you think you’ll never hear a robin’s song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree when one day you wake up and bingo light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It’s spring once again the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos.
I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions arterial sclerosis. But this stuff. I just want to go through life thinking people are happy naive as that may sound.
It’s just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it we’re all pretty creative cooking up all these fantasies. it’s like a kind of poetry.
Time for the weather report. It’s cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man or forge it into steel.
But then there’s a moment like tonight a profound and transcendent experience the feeling as if a door has opened and it’s all because of that instrument that incredible magical instrument.
There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function of course. They subsidize us. But they don’t create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.
They didn’t need men because they had each other a significant other. It doesn’t matter if the cat’s in pants or pedal-pushers. I don’t think we’re supposed to fly solo.
Hey what do you think drives all this grey matter up here Electricity. It’s brain waves surfing on synaptic junctions. If your radio can go out because of sun spots why can’t your cerebellum It’s all a matter of reception and it seems to me these signals are going to get crossed somehow. It’s all logical.
Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see when we look at marriage people we’re are looking at creation itself. I am the sky says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. You are the earth. We are sky and earth united. You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you.
Trees like to have kids climb on them but trees are much bigger than we are and much more forgiving.
Marriage. It’s a hard term to define. Especially for me I’ve ducked it like root canal. Still there’s no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It’s the only one though that we’ll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.
Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime that’s been our unifying cry More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier’s field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we’re supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge light is life light is light.
Despite everything I’ve achieved in my life the culinary awards the military commendations the honorary degrees I have never ever lost sight of what’s truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.
I just have this feeling if I take pi well past all this static take pi to million million digits that I’ll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern not just an order but a sign. A mathematical sign.
I guess what I’m trying to say is I don’t think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you’re not willing to take a risk for something you really care about you might as well be dead.
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away or you can swim with the tide and let it take you where it wants you to go.
Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that between the teeth can get pretty strong at times so why invite temptation.
Real meaningful endeavours the biggies in human existence often require the sacrifice of others.
I used to think of all the billions of people in the world and of all those people how was I going to meet the right ones The right ones to be my friends the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you’re supposed to meet.
As a doctor as a man of science I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.
I’m grateful to you. If it weren’t for you I’d be in Cicely right now and I’d still be running that rat race still locked in that commute. I’d be totally stressed I’d be totally ignorant of what my life could be. I’m happier now than I’ve ever been.
There can be no spirituality no sanctity no truth without the female sex.
I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That’s what I need. No phone book no Game Boy no pasta maker TV Guide. Nowhere to go nothing to do.
Sometimes the mind for reasons we don’t necessarily understand just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
Marriage. It’s like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.
The vow of silence that’s the mind-blower. See talking is what I do. i t’s a real need with me a craving I’m like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap I can’t imagine it It’d be like I don’t know all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning no flowing no white water just stillness crushing stillness. I don’t think I could stand it locked up like that in my own psyche. I’d collapse into myself I’d implode.
What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade century after century they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don’t know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case it’s always struck me as a hopeful thing.
Listen can you hear it Spring’s sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin’s heart. Spring.
Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life a morning on which if I had the voice I would let loose with song. It’s hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark.
Now well it’s still kind of dim out there but I can see the golden glow of Apollo’s chariot waiting in the wings about to make its entrance. Winter’s on the lam no doubt.
Let’s not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose most patients if they don’t die get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better do no harm.
As a scientist I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle to dialectical materialism or any set of formulas.
Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.