Ray McKinnon Quotes

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

Ray McKinnon

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• Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Art
  • You

• There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Difficult
  • Nothing
  • Define

• People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Friendly

• Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Time
  • Job
  • Salary

• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Speak

• One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Up
  • Live
  • Century

• I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile. And burned

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Mountain
  • Rebel
  • Toes

• I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Work
  • Country
  • America

• Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Great
  • Family

• About the joys and the courage, I really don't know what other people think. I just know that I've never left Africa. I've lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• You want me to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?

  

  Guy Fieri
  • Sandwiches
  • Butter

• Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…

  

  R. M. Williams
  • School
  • Education
  • Leave

• There's no silver bullet. We have to change as we go. The problems aren't going to go away overnight.

  

  F. Thomson Leighton
  • Silver
  • Bullet

• When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.

  

  Ruggiero Ricci
  • Play
  • Violinist

• My patients are people who live on the edge of survival and beyond.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Survival
  • Edge
  • Patients

• Most Americans believe in fairness; we believe that people should work hard but there should be a safety net. We believe in saving the quality of our air and water for our children. Most Americans want action on climate change. You can just go through the list. Most Americans believe in progressive taxation.

  

  Nancy MacLean
  • Climate Change
  • Fairness
  • Taxation

• It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Stories
  • Sounds
  • Trite

• I drink a lot of water and a lot of wine. I'm a wine drinker. Red wine, preferably.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Water
  • Wine

• I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

  

  Ray McKinnon
  • Stories
  • Instrument
  • Curtain