Richard Pryor Quotes

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

Richard Pryor

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• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Problem

• The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Right
  • Environmental

• I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Writing
  • You
  • Students

• The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Never
  • Jail
  • Jury

• The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Business
  • Simple

• I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Different
  • Always
  • Looking

• One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Nice
  • Jokes

• What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Please Everyone

• I want to say very clearly that the government... is ready to intervene in order to guarantee the stability of banks and the savings of our citizens.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Want
  • Government
  • Ready

• Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Wish
  • Thought
  • Saying

• I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Time
  • Die
  • Walk

• I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • World
  • Why
  • Feeling

• What is it in people, or just in people like me, that would rather let a lie go by, would rather wish it away or minimize it, than point it out and cause the liar embarrassment?

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Wish
  • Lie

• Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Sleep
  • Dance

• I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.

  

  Collis Potter Huntington
  • Business

• There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.

  

  Bill Pullman

• Oh well, when I was younger I was known for breaking hearts. I am the kind of person that falls passionately in love but then a couple of months down the line, I fall out of love.

  

  Jenna Jameson
  • Fall
  • Couple

• It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving them feedback.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • People
  • Work
  • Giving

• I believe God put me on this Earth to be the best person I could be, and that God put everyone to be the best person they could be.

  

  Aaron Russo
  • God
  • Best
  • Person

• Father was a good driver and enjoyed driving, but the sight of a female in charge of a vehicle was sometimes too much for him. If a car came to close or made the smallest mistake with the rules of the road he shouted, "blasted woman driver", to which my mother was often able to say, with truth, "Funny thing, she's dressed as a man."

  

  Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Man

• Production is fun but it’s a means to an end in many ways. You’re assisting other people’s dreams. It’s a day job in many ways. Doing my own stuff is far more rewarding.

  

  John Mitchell Arena
  • Dreams
  • Production
  • Rewarding

• I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

  

  Richard Pryor