S. J. Perelman Quotes

I have Bright's disease and he has mine.

S. J. Perelman

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• My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • First

• Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Sometimes
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Bad
  • City
  • Will

• My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Work
  • Together
  • Amazing

• Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Very

• It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Books

• Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Never
  • Smart
  • Living

• I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Me
  • Conscious

• I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Work
  • Always
  • Film

• Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Realize
  • Secrets
  • Hidden

• The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Quality
  • United States
  • Office

• Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Power
  • Never
  • Personality

• I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Dedication

• I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.

  

  Dana Davis
  • Kind
  • See
  • Emotion

• I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• I don't know if speaking to a therapist is right for everyone.

  

  James Arthur

• Every time I dance, it's a tremendous blessing, and I just can't forget that.

  

  Victoria Arlen
  • Time
  • Dance

• There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce 'that great past to a trouble of fools.' For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Great
  • History
  • Future

• Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend... "The world is better that I lived to-day."

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Heart
  • Friend

• I have Bright's disease and he has mine.

  

  S. J. Perelman