Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Colbert

I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.

Stephen Hess

Had this been handled expeditiously, quickly, it might have been a story on the style page, or limited to the late night comedians and the cartoonists. There's simply no question they fumbled this one.

Rob Brydon

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

Will Ferrell

It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.

Morgan Freeman

I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.

Gene Wilder

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

Henry Rollins

Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.

John Cleese

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

Emo Philips

Some comedians change their style, often to their advantage; but I see no reason why I can't continue with the "urbane sophisticate" 'til the day I die.

Richard Holloway

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

Richelle Mead

‎Keep your love, I have no use for it anymore.

Richard Bach

Perspective: use it or lose it.

Truman Capote

I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.

Travis Barker

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I`m just going to fly them out and let them hang. It`s all good.

Toyo Ito

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Raymond Chandler

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

William Saroyan

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

William Nicholson

Use your power gently.

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.

Renny Harlin

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Rose Macaulay

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Rick Riordan

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

William Faulkner

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

Richard Rodriguez

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

Upton Sinclair

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.