John Mulaney Quotes
You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.
Quotes to Explore
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If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
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The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.
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If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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I realize it's a cliche almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.
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I love '80s horror.
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In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag- It's so elegant So intelligent
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My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.
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I feel excellent right now. My body is loose and my swing is where I want it to be.
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We always talk about our kids being a great way to judge whether it's a hit song because there's something very basic about the way they perceive the music that I think needs to be there if it's gonna be a hit.
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Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.
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One of the cool things about getting to audition for things on short notice is that it teaches you to memorize efficiently. So I've never been afraid of getting text down quickly.
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I don't like telephones.
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You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.
