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

• Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Change
  • Strength

• My style was always to put the audience in the driving seat, so they feel they're a part of the action.

  

  John Glen
  • Action
  • Style
  • Driving

• Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

  

  John Keegan
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• Gator lifted the needle and dabbed at the decorated flesh, frowning. The cases on the Mimosa generally had terrible skin, but they were docile enough to make a good filing system, considering you could usually find them where you left them – they didn’t move around much on their own, and unlike other kinds of hardcopy, they seldom got stolen.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Good
  • System
  • Skin

• The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.|

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Happy
  • Beautiful
  • Thoughts

• 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