Amelia Barr Quotes
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr
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'...there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true...'
Arthur Balfour
Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.
Anthony Kennedy
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Arthur Miller
A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Arthur Miller
I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.
Kurt Braunohler
My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.
Chelsea Handler
It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.
Westbrook Pegler
What man can blameThe Greekes and Trojans to endure, for so admired a Dame,So many miseries, and so long? In her sweet countenance shineLookes like the Godesses.
George Chapman
Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.
Lenny Bruce
We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.
Andrew Cohen
God as 'He,' as a patriarchal thing, is offensive to me. It's standard fare for America, 'He, He, He.' Every time I hear that it's like another blow against females. It's very radical talk at this point for females to say this kind of stuff, but nationwide I still hear females referring to God as 'He.'
Patty Griffin
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
Amelia Barr
