George Carlin Quotes
Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
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If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.
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My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.
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It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
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This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.
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Of the truths within our reach... the mind and the heart are as doors by which they are received into the soul, but... few enter by the mind, whilst they are brought in crowds by the rash caprices of the will, without the council of reason.
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Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited.
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Eat it, lick it, snort it, fuck it!
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I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.
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I love my sponsors. They make things so much fun for me. We do really fun and exciting things, so I always have a blast. It doesn't ever seem like work.
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The conservative media ecosystem - like the rest of us - has to recognize how critical, but also how fragile, credibility is in the Orwellian age of Donald Trump.
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My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I had when I was three have made me experience numbers the way I do.
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I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.
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Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
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I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.
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Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.
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I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'
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Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
