John Oliver Quotes
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
Quotes to Explore
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I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
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I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.
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I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
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I have a very small public.
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Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.
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Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.
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People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break.
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When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.
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Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.
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Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.
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As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.
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I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.
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This modeling thing, it's pretty easy, but actually it's also really tough.
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The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been clear that deporting young people who have lived in the U.S. for years and were brought here through no fault of their own as children should not be the targets of deportation.
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My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.
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Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.
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Active questions are the alternative to passive questions. There is a huge difference between, 'Do you have clear goals?' and 'Did you do your best to set clear goals for yourself?' The former is trying to determine the employee's state of mind; the latter challenges the employee to describe or defend a course of action.
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
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I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
