Bryant H. McGill Quotes

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

Bryant H. McGill

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• I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Hate
  • Used
  • Would

• I'm mostly vegetarian.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Vegetarian
  • Mostly

• I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Old
  • Some
  • Videos

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

  Garry Kasparov
  • May
  • Game
  • Want

• There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Inspired
  • Sweet
  • Girls

• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Career
  • Old

• When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Bad
  • Playing
  • Started

• I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Gay
  • Politics
  • Late

• Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Broken
  • Bread

• I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.

  

  Tahyna Tozzi
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Change
  • Pain
  • Growth

• President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I am undeniably afraid of the dark!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• I do believe, as a person of color, the disparities are great. A lot of the roles that were sent to me were 'Gangbanger No. 1.' And when a role did come up that I felt carried and represented my community in the best ways, I wasn't the only one that knew it existed. So I'd have to compete.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Freedom
  • Know
  • Oppression

• Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Boy

• Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back.

  

  Chris Christie
  • America

• Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

  

  John Muir
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Home

• I want to see movies where I can relate to the guy.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Guy

• As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that one,' and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those.

  

  Bradley James
  • Prince

• I'm not that flashy in private; I'm usually pretty reserved. But on stage, it's about not being afraid of anything - of anyone judging you. It's one place you can be free. So why not sing as loud as you can, hoop and holler and jump around? A show is a moment. When it's done, it's over. I find that extremely liberating.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • Done
  • Why
  • Pretty

• Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Why
  • Comedy
  • Sarcastic