Richard Pryor Quotes

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

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• Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Thoughts

• Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • May
  • Deep
  • Sad

• Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lie
  • Liar
  • Too Much

• Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.

  

  R. T. Rybak
  • People
  • God
  • Mistakes

• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
  • Feeling

• The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Movie
  • Seen
  • Million

• I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Bad
  • Food

• Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Law

• O poeta é um fingidor.Finge tão completamenteQue chega a fingir que é dorA dor que deveras sente.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life

• Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Trying
  • Way
  • Stop

• Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Time
  • World
  • Way

• I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, regular guy.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Work
  • Great
  • Guy

• We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Good
  • God
  • Character

• I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Growth

• At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure.

  

  Erin Cummings
  • Reason
  • Realizing
  • Accepting

• The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Reason
  • Atheism
  • Vampire