Allison Silverman Quotes

I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.

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• Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Wine
  • Him

• To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

  

  Origen
  • Life
  • End
  • Him

• Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Group

• A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

  

  Walter Scott
  • May
  • History
  • Knowledge

• There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Very
  • Budget
  • Documentary

• A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Strong
  • Giving

• My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Father
  • Like

• I like to make my name of songs strange.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Like
  • Name
  • Strange

• Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Sorry
  • Still
  • Dialectical

• Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Education
  • Become
  • Activity

• In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Job
  • Christian
  • Democracy

• The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Achieve
  • Peaceful

• I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Past
  • Feel

• It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Day

• In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.

  

  Mae West
  • Believe
  • Better
  • I Believe

• I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Crazy
  • Anything
  • Pretend

• No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Military
  • Police

• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Tough

• I have this rule: It's like, if you write an amazing, cool song that you mean and then you go put your leather pants on and sing it in front of people; that's OK. But if you put your leather pants on and stand in front of the mirror and go, "Ok, I've got to write a song to fit these pants," then you're in trouble.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • Song
  • Write
  • Rule

• I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.

  

  Allison Silverman
  • Write
  • Tough
  • Jokes