Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

What we do as comics can be a service to people. It can make them laugh and take their mind off their problems for a few minutes.

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• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Eye
  • Smile
  • Her

• This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Speech

• If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Life
  • Work
  • Day

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Lost
  • London

• I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Looking

• When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • May
  • Today
  • Struggle

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?

  

  J. J. Watt
  • World
  • Power
  • Feeling

• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Like
  • China
  • Egg

• I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Pretty
  • Guitar
  • Gut

• And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Walking

• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Ending

• You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.

  

  Christopher Nolan
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Early inspirations included Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Lionel Richie... Those were the people I actually wound up studying just to hone my craft.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • People
  • Up
  • Wonder

• When we look at cutting people's commute - like that word infrastructure is boring. Who knows what that means? But what it really means is we got to cut people's commutes, we got to reduce congestion. Congestion costs the economy tens of billions of dollars a year to have people just stuck in traffic and non-productive time. So we got to fix that. And the best way to do that is invest in transit. And - so I'm happy that all three of the main parties seem to agree that investing in transit is important.

  

  Naheed Nenshi
  • People
  • Important
  • Party

• A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself.

  

  Brian Sutton-Smith
  • Believe
  • Character

• What we do as comics can be a service to people. It can make them laugh and take their mind off their problems for a few minutes.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • People
  • Mind
  • Service