Jonathan Krisel Quotes

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

Jonathan Krisel

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• Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Man
  • For Her
  • Give

• Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Up
  • Movies

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• A man in the house is worth two in the street.

  

  Mae West
  • House
  • Man
  • Street

• It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Long
  • Live
  • Job

• Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Words

• I think what's most important is family.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Important
  • Family
  • Think

• I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Star
  • Film
  • Inspiration

• And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • People
  • Live
  • Love

• A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Communication
  • Answer

• Of course I want to have a family, but there's a right time for everything. When my time comes, it will happen.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Time
  • Family
  • Want

• With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • America
  • Color

• As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Dread
  • Approval
  • Thirst

• I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Singing

• I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • School
  • Rebel

• Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.

  

  David F. Houston
  • Food

• All of us salute the ITU's excellent work in the telecommunications space. It has set standards which encourage investment in infrastructure and ensure that a call made from Europe or America connects smoothly in Kenya or anywhere in the world.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • World
  • Work
  • America

• I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And I was lucky that it didn't affect my lungs or my legs. It went to my face and kind of paralyzed my vocal chords, and I wasn't able to sing. And they said I was very lucky that I would get over it, which I did.

  

  Charlie Haden

• I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Ills

• When you talk about modern comedy I think there's a big three right now, and that's Louis C.K., Bill Burr, and Jim Jefferies. I don't think anyone's doing it better than those three guys.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Comedy
  • I Think
  • Guys

• It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals of genocidal weaponry, true.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • True

• I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.

  

  Jennifer Damiano
  • Great
  • Grandpa

• Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

  

  Jonathan Krisel
  • Comedy
  • Shock
  • Viewer