Sid Caesar Quotes

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Sid Caesar

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• I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • House
  • Doing

• My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Day

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Day
  • Proud

• After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.

  

  Octavian Paler
  • People
  • Different
  • Fall

• Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Money

• A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Day

• Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Work
  • Negative

• I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Body
  • View

• I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • May
  • Comedy
  • Follow

• Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Real
  • Support
  • Challenges

• Because I cannot hope to turn again Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something Upon which to rejoice

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Hope

• A great-great grandpa (there might be another great in there, I'm not sure) offered a gun and horse to anyone that would join the Confederacy in '64. Who cares if it was 1964. Give the guy a break. He had Alzheimer's and thought he was Jefferson Davis. (p. 5).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Horse

• All children are manipulators.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children

• Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

  

  Abraham Maslow

• 'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Long
  • Help
  • Lion

• Crops failed; wealth took a flight; house, treasure, land, Slipped from my hold-thus plenty comes and goes.One friend I had, but he too loosed his hand (Or was it I?) the year I met with Rose.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • House
  • Friend
  • Hand

• I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.

  

  Frank Black
  • People
  • Music
  • Style

• True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

  

  Jonathan Edwards
  • Power
  • True

• The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on - and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There is already an adequate (often superior) non-animal substitute for virtually everything obtained by animal suffering and slaughter.

  

  Hom Jay Dinshah
  • Suffering
  • Animal
  • Goes On

• The way some papers write about me, you'd think I was some kind of gold digger. The truth is, I've always earned my own money. Before I became a model in Europe, I even worked in a bakery store - for $1.50 an hour. It's a big jump from a bakery store to driving a Mercedes in California, but I'm the same person inside.

  

  Brigitte Nielsen
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Model

• Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

  

  Sid Caesar
  • Truth
  • Comedy
  • The End