Molly Shannon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
-
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
-
By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
-
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
-
One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
-
If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
-
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
-
'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
-
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
-
Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
-
I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.
-
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
-
This is my favourite thing about being raised in Africa: we don't do labels very well; we don't do this, 'Oh, you're a Democrat; oh, you're a Republican.' Because we live in the real world.
-
I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
-
I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
-
Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.
-
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
-
We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
-
It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
-
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
-
The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.
-
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.
-
I want to do something I feel like I can do.
