David Shrigley Quotes

I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.

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• Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • Ideas

• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • God
  • Evil

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Pain
  • Healing

• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Mistakes
  • Desperate

• I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Facts don't care about your feelings.

  

  Ben Shapiro

• I spend a lot more time on my wardrobe than my makeup routine and usually have to be told to brush my hair!

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Time
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• I've learned that no matter what shape you get your body into, if you don't get your head right, you're not going to feel good about yourself.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Good

• I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Life

• Books and people are hard to compare.

  

  Andrew Clements
  • People

• God gave me everything I have.

  

  Ben Harney
  • God

• The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Work

• When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Important
  • Team

• I am very grateful to punk because I was a girl, and I felt like if I got in a band, I'd be kind of a novelty act, but punk was all about non-discrimination. No one cared because it was punk, so, you know, anyone could do anything they wanted.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Girl
  • Band

• I do sing in the car. I actually sing Britney Spears songs in the car - me and a close friend of mine. She lives in West Palm and I live in Miami, and when we're going back and forth to see each other, we sing: 'Oh, Baby Baby.' We sing all these 1990s songs. We're like two 14-year-old kids just having a good time.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • Time
  • Live
  • Kids

• I was the sibling that kind of kept it all on a level when life at home got tough. I did it through comedy, sarcasm and distraction. All families are complicated, but my home life was glaringly uncomfortable much of the time, and it was me that took the onus.

  

  Johnny Galecki
  • Life
  • Time
  • Home

• I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Future

• Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Remember
  • Energy
  • Single

• I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

  

  Christopher Reeve
  • Time
  • Long
  • Beginning

• Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Writing
  • Real

• I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.

  

  David Shrigley
  • Comedy
  • Dark
  • Function