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.

Miranda Hart

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift.

Kevin Dillon

I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.

Paul Provenza

Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all of that - and then some.

Paul Rudd

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

Paul Rudd

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

Lao Tzu

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength

Cato June

I take my hat off to our D-line. They force a lot of quarterbacks to throw under pressure. They'll make any quarterback nervous.

Bo Ryan

He didn't force anything, and he gets a double-double. That's a good line for Brian. It's a good line for anybody.

Margo Lewis

He'd been ill for a while and was forced in 2005 to take a hiatus from performing.

Glen Hanlon

He keeps on doing stuff like this. Just when I thought I've seen it all, he does something else. He did a lot of things tonight that were pretty impressive. I think you got a pretty good idea of what a force he is.

Ronnie Moore

You have to force Richie to come off, but he will be okay.

Sergei Ivanov

there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks.

Doug Heller

The only thing more shocking than these profits is the prices that motorists are being forced to pay at the pump. It's hard to imagine that these numbers won't rattle the cages pretty severely.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Chuck Drury

He liked to laugh and he'd make you laugh with him.

English 19th Century Proverbs

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.

Kelly Hu

Being Asian where you're supposed to be more quiet and softer and I was always getting reprimanded for laughing to loud or speaking to loudly.

Gus Frerotte

I don't know whether to get mad at that or just laugh at it.

Adam Burish

He doesn't say anything. He just smiles at them, laughs and lines back up.

Renee Zellweger

I'm attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion - and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.

Ronnie Barker

It's better to make people laugh than cry.

Romeo Dallaire

There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a worse workaholic than I had already been by trying to work myself into the ground.

Umberto Eco

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Kathy Griffin

KATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST ... To Kathy Griffin. Warmest wishes, Renee Zellweger.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

Katie Price

I don't care what anyone says. It's my life, and I can do what I like.

Jay Plotkin

What we don't want to lose sight of is that a 4-month-old lost his life. That's the most tragic thing about this case.

Buck Showalter

I would say there were some unknowns about him. I've been pleased with the progress he's made.

John Ferguson

He's here and we're pleased to have him.

Richard Carpenter

We're pretty pleased with the services that were rendered.

Paul Armstrong

It is one of the things that I am most pleased about,

Gayle King

It is just really exciting. I have always been pleased (with the care), but now it will be even easier.

Tyrone Willingham

I have been very, very pleased with the play that we have received from Isaiah,

Jean Prahm

I never thought I would be so pleased with a sixth-place finish.

Thomas Schaaf

I'm pleased that he won't need an operation.

Charles Franklin

If I were in the White House, I would be pretty pleased about this.

Daniel Woodrell

I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive.

Paul Nicholls

I think it's a really positive idea and I'm sure I shall be having runners in the first stage at Haydock.

Bob Poole

I think it's going to be positive for that end of town. I think it's going to be the right fit.

John Davidson

I think we will have a positive year.

Aly Michalka

I think that, as an actor, you have to break out eventually, and if you do it properly, it can be something that's positive.

P. Herbert

I think to come out of here, you have to have a positive attitude. I've had remained discipline-free for two years to get this job.

Leigh Steinberg

I don't know what happened, but I know Ricky didn't test positive for anything. Someone made a mistake.

Robert Collier

See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are.

Richard DeVos

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

Joe Cocker

I'm getting older; you realise you are on the countdown of what you are doing, so performing means more than it ever did to me.

Radhanath Swami

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

Leslie Mann

When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.

Eddy Grant

The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.

Kevin Rahm

My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.

Katie McGrath

I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable job. It wasn't until I was on 'The Tudors' that I realised it was a possibility.

James Nesbitt

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

Tom Wolfe

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

Ruth Ozeki

I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.

William Schulz

And in some cases, at least, we know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed.

Samuel Johnson

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

Henry A. Kissinger

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

Terence McKenna

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

John Bytheway

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

Joan Collins

When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.

Kurt Vonnegut

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

Bill Wyman

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

Leslie Mann

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

Bill Gates

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Kate Winslet

There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.