Brad Stine Quotes

People don't realize, or maybe they've forgotten, that there was a time in history when standup comedy wasn't something that you had to hide your kids' ears from.

Brad Stine

• People
• History
• Comedy
• Realize
• Forgotten

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Guitar
  • Bridge

• At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Award

• When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • May
  • Like

• The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Girl
  • Know
  • Revenge

• We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Christian
  • Principles
  • Tell

• I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Republic

• I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Think
  • Control
  • Doing

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Creative

• When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Cool
  • Young
  • Street

• Equality for women is progress for all.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Progress
  • Equality

• I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Friends
  • Game
  • Cool

• When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • Painting
  • New York

• Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Important
  • Style
  • Jewelry

• When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Start
  • Old
  • Determined

• All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Think
  • City
  • Leaving

• You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Better
  • Lips

• I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Choices
  • Result

• Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Feeling
  • Silent
  • Seeing

• I had this thesis that we had entered the experience economy. People were getting married later and starting to value experiences like travel over owning things.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • People
  • Experience
  • Value

• It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • People
  • Book
  • Wonder

• I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• People don't realize, or maybe they've forgotten, that there was a time in history when standup comedy wasn't something that you had to hide your kids' ears from.

  

  Brad Stine
  • People
  • History
  • Comedy