Vir Das Quotes

Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.

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• We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Relation
  • Arts
  • Sciences

• Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Why
  • Party

• They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Saying
  • Computers
  • Nonsense

• It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Enemy
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Past
  • Look
  • Smile

• In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Time
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Ego

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Early

• Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Care

• Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Perspective

• Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.

  

  Sam Weller
  • House
  • Small
  • California

• I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Love
  • Feelings
  • Dreams

• When I was a boy in Desuq, Egypt, a city on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, about 50 miles east of Alexandria, my family lived steps away from the local landmark, a mosque named for a 13th-century Sufi sheik.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Family
  • City
  • Boy

• What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • World
  • Trying
  • Vision

• I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery.

  

  Erro
  • Lucky
  • Prize
  • Lottery

• The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Done
  • Earth
  • inspirational

• Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.

  

  Vir Das
  • Comedy
  • Laughter
  • Record