Joel McHale Quotes

I operate off of fear almost exclusively.

Joel McHale

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Great
  • Political
  • Ugly

• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Single
  • Brave

• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Single
  • Difficult
  • Stress

• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Little

• It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Difficult
  • Pleasure
  • Bear

• I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Down

• Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Star
  • Child
  • Fame

• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • School
  • Change
  • Acting

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Work
  • Money
  • Patience

• What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Work
  • Art
  • Change

• I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Horrible
  • Chords

• I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Night
  • Quiet
  • Busy

• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Hate
  • Actor

• You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Home
  • Changes

• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

  

  Alain Robert
  • Life
  • Drinking

• I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really low and writing, you're not thinking about anybody at all.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

  

  Kristin Davis
  • People
  • Money

• I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Fear
  • Style
  • Said

• We have come by curious ways To the Light that holds the days; We have sought in haunts of fear For that all-enfolding sphere: And lo! it was not far, but near.We have found, O foolish-fond, The shore that has no shore beyond.Deep in every heart it lies With its untranscended skies; For what heaven should bend above Hearts that own the heaven of love?

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Light

• I operate off of fear almost exclusively.

  

  Joel McHale
  • Fear