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Colin Quinn Quotes

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

Colin Quinn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1959

Topics

Funny Good Writing Impossible Think

I think you're put here on earth to enjoy yourself. And I'm doing that.

Jim McMahon

Yourself Think Doing Enjoy You Here

The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

John Burnside

Work Time Mind Enough Down I Can

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good Time Death Man Good Man Seen

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.

Robert H. Schuller

Problem Underestimate Never Ability

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

John Ruskin

Person Liberty Honorable Restraint

Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.

John Sculley

Apple Thinker Factory Systems Came

Young parents in America are holy and not to be messed with. If they say something is correct, we all acquiesce. And is there any man, woman or canine who doesn't leap out of the way when one of those giant, all-terrain Bugaboo strollers comes barreling down the sidewalk?

Amity Shlaes

Woman Man Parents America Down Say

I love shows. I love being with fans. It keeps you inspired.

Mija

Love You Inspired Fans Being Shows

Getting typecast is a dangerous thing to do.

Michael Zaslow

Dangerous Dangerous Thing Thing

You are at some point exposed to a wonderful story, and you really want to know what happens next, so you learn to read in order to find out.

Diana Gabaldon

Story Learn You Find Know Want

My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.

Deepak Chopra

Father Doctor Army

It's always great when you discover someone.

Brian De Palma

Great Someone You Always Discover