Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Hughes

That's kind of an odd statistic. You don't see that too often.

Ricky Gervais

I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

Charles Bukowski

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor

Swami Vivekananda

Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

Norm MacDonald

It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."

Marina Warner

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

Patricia Clarkson

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

Patricia Cornwell

Thoughts are odd misfires.

Maggie Peterson

Don was a comic actor. He wasn't a wisecracking, loud sort of person always telling jokes - nor is Andy.

Jason Wiles

I think on 'Third Watch' that I was the comic relief on a lot of that. I mean, I definitely had dark moments, but people tended to think he was funny even if the character himself wasn't having a fun time.

Miriam Toews

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

Seth

Comics are given serious attention now and I'm quite surprised. You see them reviewed in major newspapers and exhibited in serious museums. I wouldn't have predicted it.

Gale Anne Hurd

I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.

Matt Ryan

I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books.

Chelsea Peretti

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

Jon Huertas

I've always wanted to come to Comic Con.

Steve Hofstetter

I try to mix it up. Who wants to see a comic who just goes on with one subject, such as politics, for an hour? I go in a number of different directions. When I perform, there is no subject that is taboo.

Adam Brody

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

Stephen Colbert

Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.

Mike Birbiglia

Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.

Matt Roth

You don't want to make him mad. He's not one for jokes or antics.