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Tig Notaro Quotes

Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're having a hard time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: March 24, 1971

Topics

Mother Time Losing You Want Hard

Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.

Opportunity Fun People Me Believe

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

Money You Look Matter Always Taste

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

Art Tragedy Go Entertainment Level

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

Change Time Change The World World

The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

Life Balance Talking Realize Out

I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.

God Thankful Food Grateful Grace

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

Love Music Guitar Play Beatles

I've been blessed with three wonderful careers: motion pictures and television, wife, mother and grandmother... and diplomatic services for the United States government.

Mother Wife Government Blessed Three

I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.

Robin Coste Lewis

Thought Know Write Poet Because Had

You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.

Robert Ben Garant

Business Art Writing Magic You Kind

Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!

Happy People Management Problem Quit

If somebody says they are going to do something - and then later they don't - it affects me a lot, and I lose confidence in them.

Royston Drenthe

Confidence Me Lose Something Going

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