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'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

• 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

• I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

  

  Aristotle
  • Genius
  • Thing
  • Master

• There is absolutely nothing humorous at the Masters. Here, small dogs do not bark and babies do not cry.

  

  Gary Player
  • Masters
  • Humorous

• The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Science
  • Conclusion
  • Humorous

• The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Together
  • Impulse

• I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about whether they're going to sell my next album or book. Hell, William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Book
  • Worry

• I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.

  

  Victoria Arlen
  • Up
  • Ballet

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

  

  Richard Lederer
  • Humorous
  • Metaphor