Doug Stanhope Quotes

You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.

Doug Stanhope

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• The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Money
  • Personal
  • Manners

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Across
  • Chest
  • Wore

• Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

  

  Om Puri
  • Just
  • Follow
  • Soldiers

• I've had to be tough my whole life.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Tough
  • Had

• It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Always

• Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • You
  • Saying
  • Flag

• I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Night
  • Productive

• I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Stuff

• The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Cooking
  • Forgiveness

• I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Country
  • May

• But when you think: Tim McGraw,I hope you think my favorite song.The one we danced to all night long:The moon like a spotlight on the lake.When you think happiness,I hope you think: 'That little black dress.'Think of my head on your chest,An' my old faded blue jeans.When you think Tim McGraw,I hope you think of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Song

• I always felt like there were always egos involved when I was trying to get music finished in New Order. Sometimes it would feel like I was running through water.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Running

• But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

  

  Albert Claude
  • Knowledge

• The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good
  • Sweet

• I love watching 'The Real Housewives of New York.' That's my guilty pleasure. But I don't even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone out, and forget about my problems.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Real
  • Guilty

• I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art. But I don't think a work of art can actively reject the person who's looking at it or reading it.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Money

• Morsy was not only Egypt's democratically elected president, he is now emerging as the Arab world's Nelson Mandela...during Morsy's one-year reign, Egypt enjoyed freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate peacefully, and not a single one of his political opponents were jailed.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Political
  • Freedom

• When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Writing

• I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.

  

  Doug Stanhope