Amy Poehler Quotes

Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.

Amy Poehler

• Waiting
• Please
• Permission
• Yes

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• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Die
  • Waiting

• Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Pretty
  • House
  • Books

• People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • People
  • Up
  • Waiting

• Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Child

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Best
  • Choices

• Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Done
  • Couple
  • Yes

• My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • School
  • Day
  • Waiting

• Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Write
  • Hard
  • Yes

• My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• Yes, I love playing Mom.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Love
  • Mom
  • Playing

• But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

  

  Sally Field
  • Me
  • Waiting
  • Half

• With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Ocean

• Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did.

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • Bad
  • Woman
  • Yes

• The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Best
  • Waiting

• I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Singing
  • Waiting
  • Wind

• At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Why
  • Side
  • Yes

• But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Life
  • Death
  • Waiting

• I'd like to build myself a rocket ship and launch myself into space. Still waiting on the technological advances required for a DIY space flight.

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • Waiting
  • Flight
  • Technological

• That rock ‘n’roll, eh? That rock’n’roll, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the swamp. I think the cyclical nature of the universe in which it exists demands that acquiesce to some of its rules. But it’s always waiting there, just around the corner,” he added. “Ready to make its way back through the sludge and smash through the glass ceiling, looking better than ever. Yeah, that rock’n’roll, it seems like it’s faded away sometimes, but it will never die. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

  

  Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys
  • Thinking
  • Universe
  • Sometimes

• I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get back their notes and see what they've said. I don't criticize myself for making blunders here and there, because it's just natural. You write in chunks, and you may not remember that that sentence you wrote yesterday had the same word repeated three times. I do enjoy that. I love the feeling of repairing. Repairing is really nice.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Nice

• I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.

  

  Stella Benson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Heart

• If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Animal
  • Credit
  • Worthy

• Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Waiting
  • Please
  • Permission