Edward Albee Quotes

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.

Edward Albee

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• While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Long
  • Small

• I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

  

  Folorunsho Alakija
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Respect
  • Proud
  • Human

• I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Up
  • Never
  • Just

• I do believe in happy-ever-after.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Believe
  • Happy

• But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • You
  • See
  • Act

• I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Music
  • Know
  • Football

• I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Famous

• I love penguins.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Penguins

• Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Like
  • Nothing
  • Changes

• Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Like
  • Show
  • Last

• I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are filled with shame. I think shame is interesting.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Me

• I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Strong

• 'Dancing with the Stars' was a really great experience. People were definitely surprised that I'm a fighter, or they couldn't believe I'm a professional fighter, but I feel like I'm going to get that for a while. I'm excited to bring a new demographic over to MMA and the UFC.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Competition
  • Environmental

• The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • World
  • Men
  • War

• I'm not happy if I'm not doing some physical suffering, like going out on a bike ride or running. First, it's good for you. No. 2, it sort of clears my mind on a daily basis. And it's a job. My job is to suffer. I make the suffering in training hard so that the races are not full of suffering.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Job

• Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Youth
  • Glory
  • Bitter

• You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one.

  

  Eric Brown
  • Life

• Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

  

  Origen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• I guess I just want everything to be available immediately.

  

  John Lurie

• I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.

  

  Edward Albee