W. S. Gilbert Quotes

Life is a joke that's just begun.

W. S. Gilbert

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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.

Wanda Sykes
- Up
- Job
- Wife
I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

Frances McDormand
- Up
- You
- Summer
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Lascelles Abercrombie
- Age
- Reason
- Poetry
I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

Nas
- Life
- Up
- Done
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.

Madonna Breakfast Club
- World
- Real
- Pain
Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

M. J. Rose
- Important
- You
- Sometimes