Chris Morris Quotes

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Death
  • Government
  • Lying

• The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Society
  • Color
  • Daily

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

  

  Abraham Kuyper
  • Like
  • Existence
  • Poor

• Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Job
  • Weird

• I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Time
  • Conversation

• The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Together
  • River
  • Wood

• Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Life
  • Live
  • Law

• I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Military

• The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Hurt
  • Economy
  • Taxes

• These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Everything
  • Read
  • Just

• Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Freedom
  • Taken
  • Judge

• I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.

  

  Gallagher
  • World
  • Problem
  • Prejudice

• I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Job
  • Myself

• It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • Work
  • Guy

• Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There’s something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones. There’s something in my very blood that owns Bare hills, cold silver on a sky of slate, A thread of water, churned to milky spate Streaming through slanted pastures fenced with stones.

  

  Elinor Wylie
  • Hate
  • Water
  • Cold

• To create the life you deserve, you have to go after it. The universe that you inhabit flows from you - you don't flow from it.

  

  Georgette Mosbacher
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Flow

• My position is that the rate should align with the level of economic development. Because it is always about a balance, a balance of interests, and it should reflect this balance. A balance between those who sell something across the border and those who benefit from a low rate, as well as a balance between the interests of those who buy, who need the rate to be higher. A balance between national producers, for example, agricultural producers who are interested in it.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Balance
  • Interest
  • Economic

• I wish that more people, especially young people, were taught about self-love at a younger age.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Age
  • Wish

• However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

  

  Frank Langella

• I try and keep busy with something, but I also give myself permission to be busy with something that is creative and rewarding, not just the errands to the dry cleaner.

  

  Eric Lange
  • Creative
  • Permission
  • Rewarding

• A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

  

  Chris Morris