David Sedaris Quotes

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

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• Bald is the new black!

  

  Gail Porter
  • Black
  • New
  • Bald

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!

  

  Walter Huston
  • Up
  • Good
  • Man

• Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Me
  • Useful
  • Facebook

• I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • School
  • Free

• Vampires are super sexy.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Sexy
  • Vampires
  • Super

• My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • She
  • Mother
  • Born

• Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Done
  • Together

• Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Remember
  • Desire
  • Painting

• To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was 'system,' an indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was 'industry,' indecision when right was 'caution,' and blind stubbornness when wrong, 'determination.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Determination

• If you want to be --ing individual, don’t get a tattoo. Every --er’s got one these days.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Tattoo

• The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Value

• What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Women
  • Money
  • Dumb

• I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won't be able to do it anymore.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Life
  • Important

• It's just not good to put stock in a Hollywood celebrity.

  

  Jason Jones
  • Good
  • Celebrity
  • Stock

• I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.

  

  Philippe Falardeau
  • Funny

• The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

  

  Dave Sim
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Society

• When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Challenge
  • Unique

• I like to build houses.

  

  Bill Pullman

• For me, the easiest thing to figure out is the story I want to tell, and the hardest thing is to figure out the voice that's gonna tell it. And that's why I finish very little.

  

  Owen King
  • Why

• I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Great
  • Movies

• I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

  

  Dorothea Dix
  • Attention
  • Obedience
  • Cellars

• Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Good
  • Writing

• To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

  

  David Sedaris