Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sandra Bernhard

I'll take on somebody if they're offending the entire culture, not just offending me.

Joseph Addison

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

Ken Curtis

I'm really proud ofGunsmoke. We put on a good show every week-one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

Louise Penny

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.

Jimmy Carr

I don't see myself as offending people.

George Lopez

I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.

Alexander McCall Smith

The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers.

Rick Friesen

We research that, and if we didn't run it we think we'd be offending those viewers.

Benjamin Franklin

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Richard Baxter

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

William Saroyan

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.

Virgil Thomson

The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.

Rick Warren

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.

Sam Abell

The reason I don't want to say anything about it is it has a strange power to take over the conversation. Just like it's doing with us. I was asked to participate in a documentary about Richard Prince, and be the voice of someone who was appropriated, and I declined. The reason I did is I don't want it to be the subject of the discussion of my work.

Khaled Hosseini

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

George Galloway

Anyone will say anything under torture.

Jon Ronson

You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology.

Angela Shelton

I thought this would be a cute little film about meeting people with your same name, ... I would shoot it during the summer and then start on my comedy.

Paul Brooks

I think that because it was comedy-horror instead of pure horror is where the problem lay. It's the first comedy-horror in a long time, and maybe the marketplace just isn't ready for comedy-horror yet. It's difficult to think of other explanations.

Patricia Heaton

It had a 'Moonstruck' quality to the comedy - very romantic, huge emotions. I like to think of it as a comic opera, ... It just posed this question, what is true love? Is it that sort of ecstatic, over-the-top feeling you get on meeting someone? Or is it about years of commitment and history together? Or is it both? How do you find it, and how do you know? It's a very complicated topic.

Kimberley Nixon

'Fresh Meat' is the first comedy thing I've ever done.

Joan Severance

I don't know why they wanted me-no one had ever seen me do any sort of comedy one way or another, so it couldn't have been that!

Cyndi Lauper

I am also an Emmy winning actress. Except that I gotta tell ya, it was for comedy and I've been practicing for most of my life because every job I've ever had they'd always say the same thing, 'Hey Lauper, what are ya, some kind of comedienne?' and who knew?

Dwayne Hickman

He had a wonderful sense of comedy, great timing, and he had sweet personality on the screen. I loved working with him. I was proud to be his straight man.

Rob Zombie

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.

Woody Allen

I'd always wanted to be a dramatic. Comedy comes more naturally to me. I can do it with more facility. So I feel more comfortable with it.