Louis C. K. Quotes

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.

Louis C. K.

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• I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Country
  • English
  • Emotion

• I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Like

• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Period

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Change
  • Journalism

• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Done
  • Man
  • Black

• I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Life
  • Time
  • Father

• I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Live
  • Without
  • Activity

• When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Love
  • Young

• Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Need

• Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • City
  • Place
  • Chicago

• I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • May
  • Honor
  • Fight

• I don't ever want to feel complacent.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Complacent

• The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Up
  • History
  • Peace

• I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Remember
  • Care

• I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Job
  • Science
  • Past

• Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Wisdom

• I think that if I have one hope, 1 ambition, 1 aspiration for the next 4 or 5 years it would be that I can improve as a writer and just be able to say more of what I want to say throught the music.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• If you're doing anything disruptive, and if you know it to be good and true and progressive, let the naysayers fuel you to work harder and go faster and sleep less.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Good
  • Work
  • True

• My daughter loves to be surprised. And she loves to surprise me. She loves to create games where either one or both of us are surprised, or go away, and then come back. And she loves to play them over and over, and over again. The combo is familiar. Go away. Come back. Surprise! She is only two. I better get used to this.

  

  Alysia Reiner
  • She
  • Daughter

• Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • Good
  • Wind
  • Endurance