Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

Jane Smiley

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Max Muller

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Michael Gruber

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

Jesse Metcalfe

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

Eugene Ionesco

Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

Jean Cocteau

At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.

Frank Gehry

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

Flannery O'Connor

Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

Melissa McCarthy

At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.

Ray William Johnson

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

Reese Witherspoon

Romantic comedy has really evolved since that time when there used to be a lot of social conventions and all sorts of reasons why people couldn't be together,

Christy Romano

It would be a half-hour comedy that would really showcase my personality so my fans could get to know me. And I'd love to keep working with ABC.

Brett Ratner

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

Bobby Farrelly

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

Aaron Harberts

And we felt like it was just a great romantic comedy world and a great office comedy.

Mark Billingham

While the subject matter of my novels could not be further removed from the stuff I used to trot out at the Comedy Store, the delivery of the material employs many of the same techniques.

Tim White

We've got a full schedule, ... We're excited because we're on the verge of releasing our fifth CD. We will have a lot of comedy on it, and songs about chickens. We love to make people laugh.