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
  • Humorous

• 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

• You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Smile
  • Mistakes
  • Loneliness

• When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but even if there were, I don't think I would have gone to them. I used to do stuff in the bathroom, and then I'd drive down to NBC and do it on 'The Golddiggers' with Dean Martin.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Comedy

• We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wise
  • Discipline
  • Laugh

• With long skirts, you can really buff. People open doors for you and everything.

  

  Niki de Saint Phalle
  • Doors
  • Open
  • Skirts

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

  

  Richard Lederer
  • Humorous
  • Metaphor