Richard Lederer Quotes

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Richard Lederer

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• Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Sad

• I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Humorous

• I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Women
  • Think
  • Dance

• I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • People
  • Past
  • Serious

• It's one of those things that gets written off as humorous when you watch a child entertainer try to redefine themselves, but it can be an intense identity crisis.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Identity
  • Humorous

• You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

  

  Brendan Coyle
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Relationship

• I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

  

  Colm Meaney
  • Character
  • Humorous

• I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

  

  Max Cannon
  • Trying
  • Ironic
  • Humorous

• I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable.

  

  Marv Levy
  • Book
  • Serious
  • Poetry

• It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

  

  Rachel Hartman
  • God
  • Metaphor

• The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Life
  • Humorous
  • Hopeless

• Manage by responsibility.It is a powerful way to grow people.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Powerful

• Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Management
  • Humorous
  • Manage

• There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Trying
  • English
  • Greek

• The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that."

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Funny
  • Party

• You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Animal
  • German

• Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Imagination
  • Serious
  • Wit

• Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Use
  • Metaphor
  • Trash

• Yeah, obviously we use vampires as a metaphor for something else, something deeper than just the supernatural. But there's just something about the bloodsucking walking dead, that can say so much to people. There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Soul
  • Use
  • Metaphor

• The reports that Media Matters have done about sexism in our society and really the mainstream media called Hillary Clinton "castrating," they called her the B word, they called her all kinds of horrible things. And I think in a sense that it raised the awareness in our country, so that we can have a national discussion about it.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Country
  • Kind
  • Awareness

• Some of the greatest works of theater, from Chekov's work to modern playwrights', consist of just a few people in a room with no one leaving.

  

  Adam Rapp
  • People
  • Work
  • Leaving

• Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.

  

  Arthur Mitchell
  • Animals
  • Guilt
  • Separates

• The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

  

  Richard Lederer
  • Humorous
  • Metaphor