Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gallagher

I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.

Don Rickles

The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'

David Steinberg

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

Frank Caliendo

I think sometimes comedians and entertainers and artists, sometimes they get onstage, and it's all for what they want to do. I think you still need to do stuff for the audience. They're the ones who are making it possible.

Carl Reiner

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

Bill Burr

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.

Bill Burr

Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.

Chris Pratt

Who knew Rob Lowe was funny? On 'Parks and Rec,' we've got some of the funniest comedy writers, some of the funniest comedians in the world working there. And if anything, we don't just effuse to one another and be like, 'Oh, Rob Lowe's really funny,' if he wasn't.

Rory Bremner

Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland where you rarely get more than 40% turnout at the polls. There's a big disconnect there, and I think comedians bridge that gap.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

Igor Luksic

We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

Abraham Lincoln

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Nancy Gibbs

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

Carrie Vaughn

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

Carl Safina

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

Antoine Fuqua

The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in front of you as opposed to cutting away and doing a bunch of tricks. It's in front of you. So it's hard not to make it a hard "R" if you see a guy get punched and teeth wind up in someone's knuckles.

Bill Vaughan

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

Bill Burr

When you say, "there's no reason [to hit a woman]" that kills any examination as to how two people ended up at that place. When you say, "there's no reason," you cut out the build-up and you're just left with the act. How you gonna solve it if you don't figure it out?

Michael Vick

Whatever they want to say, whatever they want to perceive me as ? just a running quarterback or a runner ? it does not matter. I'm a winner.

Bill Johnson

Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Michael Sheen

You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'

Scott McCallum

I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we were getting a fair shake from the media.

Phil Klay

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Yasser Elguindi

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

Park Chan-wook

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

Steve Stirling

He's a real steady presence, on and off the ice. He has two championship rings and that's impressive.

Bon Bean

We're going all the way. It's a done deal. Put 'Gladiators' on the rings and set up the parade.

Mike Scioscia

He called him out, and that's what's disappointing. When he rings him up with a fist, he's out.

Douglas Hamilton

That's how we think the jovian rings are formed,

Alan Faneca

They got the rings and we went home.

David M. Shoup

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

Joss Whedon

Let freedom ring, unless it's on vibrate.

Mickey Spillane

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

Rocky Marciano

In the ring, I never really knew fear.

Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Kathleen Blanco

We're dumping things into the hole, just to stem the tide.

Greg Schiano

Sometimes you make a play like that interception in the end zone and you stem the tide and find a way to win. We interfered.