Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Sam Kinison Quotes

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

Sam Kinison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1953 - April 10, 1992

Topics

Comedy Doing Career Want Move Get

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

John Larroquette

Fiction Books Collect Primarily

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

John Mahoney

Marriage Fear Relationship Parents

I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.

Slash

Myself Strong Feelings Heritage Very

The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.

Simon Sinek

Feel You Desire Important Human

Don't look at your legs and think: 'They're fat.' Think: 'These things carry me around all day, and I don't have arthritis. Oh, and I've got great ankles.'

Trinny Woodall

Great Day Me Think Fat Look

I love J. K. Rowling. If I could meet any person, I would meet her.

Ruth B

Love Person Meet Her If I Could Any

Everybody has the right to be who they choose to be.

Montel Williams

Choose Right Who Everybody

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

Lou Boudreau

Anticipation Knowing Playing Hitter

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

Doc Watson

Good Yourself Feel Trying You Down

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness Man Angry Revenge Young

I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

Brian May

Life Music People Me Looking Think

They do say now in cycling that there's no such thing as bad weather - it's bad clothing.

Bradley Wiggins

Weather Bad Now Say Clothing Thing