Chevy Chase Quotes

The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.

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• When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Wrong

• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Proud

• I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • High

• I'm not the biggest comic book fan.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Book
  • Fan
  • Comic

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'

  

  Lance Burton
  • Always
  • Mistake
  • Waiting

• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Ideas
  • Sound
  • Differences

• That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Great
  • Never
  • Secrets

• Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Problem
  • Information

• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Water
  • Monster
  • Glass

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Work
  • Political

• When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Me
  • Never
  • Notes

• Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Free
  • Everyday
  • Morality

• 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
  • Want
  • Career
  • Comedy

• People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Like
  • Being

• And so much of these plant psychedelic entities are at least 4,000 years old. Now, when you experiment - when you work with these plant psychedelics, what I have found is that these entities are actually there. They are aware of you, they are aware that you are a person, and they are able to communicate with you.

  

  D. M. Turner
  • Work
  • Years
  • Able

• Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Attention
  • Police

• When she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • She
  • Earth
  • Light

• Proof' is going to be, in many ways, a mystery. It's not a procedural in any way. It's not a medical drama. It really is about trying to investigate whether or not there's life after death.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Death

• Do you remember what happened the night of March 23?

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Remember
  • Night
  • Happens

• The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Night