Madeline Kahn Quotes

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Madeline Kahn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 29, 1942 - December 3, 1999

Topics

MomentComedySomeoneTryingRight

I would not want to be on a cruise ship. Some ferry crossings I'm not too thrilled about.

Jennifer Connelly

ShipWantCruiseWouldFerrySome

Think how different it is to experience a word than a sound. When you're hearing a singer, you're controlled by the words, because you understand the language, you know what they're talking about, and you're forced to think about what they're talking about. But when you're hearing that same thing without a word, you're free to wander.

Jenny Scheinman

ExperienceWordsFreeThinkLanguage

I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood.

Jenna Morasca

FamilyBloodWillAlwaysCome

Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.

John Edgar Wideman

MusicTimeArtSilenceRhythmPoint

We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.

Alvar Aalto

CityProblemsProblemThreeNothing

We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.

Roxane Gay

IdeasThoughtWrongRightRational

I love playing with fashion.

Antonio Brown

LoveFashionPlayingI Love

Work is spiritual. It is a place where we have the opportunity for spiritual growth. Often, these opportunities come from the 'how' of the ways we do our work rather than the 'what' of the work itself.

Anne Wilson Schaef

WorkGrowthOpportunitySpiritual

This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?

William Kidd

MenShipSaidHimReasonAlways

Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

Richard O'Brien

GoodbyeSayingInterestSomething

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Montesquieu

PovertyLuxuryRuinsRepublics

It is not questioned that the Federal Government is one of limited powers. Its powers are such, and such only, as are expressly granted in the Constitution or are properly incident to the expressly granted powers and necessary to their execution.

James K. Polk

GovernmentConstitutionExecution

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