On 'Adam Ruins Everything' we do the broadest sketch comedy possible. We do stuff where you can see it immediately and know it's a joke - characters in big silly costumes; here's Uncle Sam and he's twiddling his fingers saying, 'Oh, I'm naughty.'
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
We moralize among ruins.
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
When you're doing well and you're successful, part of being successful is that you get interviewed. But it ruins the moment.
I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.
