Harry Shearer Quotes

To me, the funniest American of the Twentieth Century is Richard Nixon because he had the most to hide, and he was so bad at hiding it. To me, that's what's really funny - people who think they're doing a great job of hiding stuff, and it just keeps leaking out.

Harry Shearer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 23, 1943

Topics

FunnyGreatJobPeopleMeThink

The blues, the way it's interpreted, is always a product of your environment, and so it's almost like food. You know, it's like you use the ingredients, and you use your life experiences that you have.

Joe Bonamassa

LifeFoodEnvironmentYouKnowWay

Theater is the most important thing in life for me.

Joel Grey

LifeMeImportantThe Most Important

Oh, all southern women say they're sorry. You could do almost anything, bump into some one, don't spread the jam right, you're always sorry. I've had people tell me to stop saying it so much!

Andie MacDowell

WomenPeopleMeSorrySayingYou

I'd love to see lower spending levels, and in absence of lower spending levels, I'd love to see us reallocate where some of that spending is and really address the entitlements that continue growing.

Jeff Duncan

LoveGrowingSeeWhereAbsenceUs

It seems, whenever there are two Brits fighting in the UFC, we always seem to put on a good fight.

Michael Bisping

GoodFightFightingTwoAlwaysSeem

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

Stephen Hawking

GoodChanceThinkEnoughLongSolar

The best revenge in the world is success.

Suge Knight

SuccessBestWorldRevenge

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

Robin Trower

ImpossibleFeelingPlayCryRun

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

Roland Emmerich

WorkPeopleYouFindExcitedGet

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

LifeLiveExperienceDeathPresent

Be not scared to use your voice.

Logic

VoiceScaredYourUse

As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.

Doug Baldwin

CommunityFeelSayHumanSeeI See

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