Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keke Palmer

Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think.

Greg Behrendt

I was always funny, but I wasn't a great musician, and I wanted to be a musician way more than I wanted to be a comic. I just didn't think comedians were cool when I was a kid.

Trevor Noah

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.

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.

David Banner

He looked better than he ever looked to me. But he's the one who decides whether he can look at himself in the daytime. The one thing you have to understand about comedians is, the more they make people smile, the more pain that they usually feel inside.

Molly Shannon

I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it.

Josh Thomas

I like seeing comedians do stuff that I could never do.

Mike Birbiglia

I'm a comedian, and the other comedians are played by comedians, the same way that in 'Once' there are the musicians that hang out together.

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.

Jeff Wachtel

It isn't easy to create a drama infused with comedy, and Psych just knocks it out of the park.

Jeff Wachtel

It isn't easy to create a drama infused with comedy, and 'Psych' just knocks it out of the park.

Judah Friedlander

I think some people's comedy IQ's aren't as high as other people's, so they don't really know what's going on. Or they think they know what's going on, but they don't really.

Bea Arthur

I watch a lot of news shows and I love Nick at Night, and the Comedy Channel.

Kimberley Nixon

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

Howard Rosenberg

He was one of the few in television who could always be counted on to deliver comedy that was smart and funny.

Alan Light

He just digs himself deeper into a hole no matter when he does it.

Joe Logan

Half-court execution is something we've worked on. We still look to run, but as you get deeper into the MAAC, you have to score in the half-court.

Teju Cole

I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

Tommy Amaker

Having those players back make us a much better team, a deeper team.

Chance VanGundy

I think we're a year away from going deeper into the state tournament.

Frank Busch

I think we're a little deeper going into tomorrow than we were on the women's side, so I'm looking forward to that.

Jeff Hickok

I think we're deeper than most teams in the bracket.

Dave Nonis

I think we need some new energy, new juice. It does not go any deeper than that.

John Brady

I think it translates into your fans having a deeper connection, maybe, having seen (the Tigers) play in high school and now at LSU.

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.

Rob Brydon

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

Richard P. Feynman

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

Richard Whately

Happiness is no laughing matter.

Richelle Mead

Well there you go. Even a psychopath recognized your worth enough to want to kill someone else first." I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

E. O. Wilson

It had her performing stripping, touching herself, things of that nature.

Richard P. Feynman

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Richard Wilbur

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

Ronald Wright

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

Truman Capote

In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Reinhold Messner

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....

Reinhold Niebuhr

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Joe Horn

Just to make those people happy, it's all worthwhile.

Spencer Kayden

I surround myself with people I admire and respect. I have never tried to make anything happen. I don't know how long 'Urinetown' will run on Broadway, and I find myself strangely unconcerned about it.

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Dave Breitenfeld

I think, in general, most people in the public don't know what we do.

Robin Day

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

Robert De Niro

You draw on whatever’s relevant to the part you’re playing. It makes it more personal.

Rick Warren

We do not have to make the Bible relevant - it already is! But we do have to show its relevance.

Makhosini Nkosi

The investigation was also conducted in consultation with the complainant and the relevant witnesses.

Linus Torvalds

If it is relevant there is always somebody else out there.

Fay Guarraci

It wasn't just that they wanted to be around them. It seemed to be particularly relevant to the sexual interaction, the stimulation they would receive.

Sarah Hall

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

Paul Chellgren

You want info relevant to Wednesday, where and when you are.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

John Updike

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.