Shel Silverstein Quotes

You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.

Shel Silverstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1930 - May 10, 1999

Topics

BetterLaughDoingLongYouPoint

I don't think I would ever have plastic surgery; there isn't anything I'd want to change.

Sonia Rykiel

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Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

Steven Pinker

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We ought to have a platform to plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy.

Steve Scalise

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For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

Johnny Miller

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In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

Chuck Palahniuk

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I think I definitely get my soft side from my mother.

Brantley Gilbert

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To me, I think of the '70s as being this glorious decade where I discovered who I was and discovered all these amazing things... punk rock, electro music, fashion, all of that.

Boy George

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Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.

Bruce Vilanch

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Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

Bob Kerrey

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Anytime you can get some congratulatory - anything said or the guys waiting around the green - that's always nice. You're out here so many weeks a year, and sometimes away from your family, and the tour kind of becomes your family. So when you have these guys hanging around, it's special.

Brooks Koepka

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Trillions of dollars spent on foreign wars have done nothing to make Americans feel safer at home.

Anthony Scaramucci

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Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Augustus Y. Napier

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