Tig Notaro Quotes

Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them.

Tig Notaro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

FoodHairEatingReadingEnjoyYou

A fan would get an autograph and that was that. If we didn't tour again for five years, we wouldn't remember them.

Joe Elliott

RememberYearsAutographGetTour

Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along.

Jesse Andrews

BookYoungReasonHonestStayMove

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

John Major

MistakeThinkArgumentAbilitySee

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

Angelina Jolie

GoodStartGrowLearnActorBecause

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Andy Rooney

TeacherPeopleRestEndRememberUp

I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to support my young son. There's what frames my view on the topics I discuss on my shows, and the average person relates to that. No matter how many degrees I have now, I lived that life, and that comes through to the people watching.

Michael Eric Dyson

LifeFatherSonSupportCollege

The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.

Stanley Elkin

InterestingDieYouMoreFictionUs

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

Smedley Butler

LifeGreatWarRealizeSoldierDid

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

Rutherford B. Hayes

PowerTimeActionChanceForward

Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the '70s she'd be the queen of Southern rock.

Johnny Van Zant

QueenLookRockSheOutSouthern

Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.

Don Cheadle

FamilyLosingFriends And FamilyOut

When I was a kid and we first moved to the states I used to watch 'Batman' all the time - with Adam West. I finally got to work with him years ago, and I totally geeked out.

Diedrich Bader

WorkTimeFirstKidHimOut

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Tig Notaro