Louis C. K. Quotes

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Louis C. K.

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• I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Right
  • Environmental

• When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Day

• My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Work
  • School

• I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Son
  • Feel
  • Sad

• The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Never
  • Constitution

• I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Hope
  • Romantic
  • Last

• The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Politics

• Give me the flash lights, the red carpets, and all that goes with it. Please! Oh, and I love hoardings. I love them. Nothing makes me happier than my face splashed all over the city.

  

  Karan Johar
  • City
  • Face
  • Happier

• It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Life
  • Support
  • Tobacco

• Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Time
  • Money
  • Never

• The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Man
  • Dreams

• In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Time
  • Great
  • Dark

• I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Nations
  • Mother`s
  • Wars

• It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Culture
  • Nothing
  • Dead

• That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.

  

  Halsey
  • Remember
  • Choose
  • Musicians

• Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Eyes
  • Kind
  • Television

• I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • History
  • Down
  • Champion

• The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Reality
  • Build
  • Scientists

• It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know he - oh, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all of those other presidents on those dollar bills.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Patriotic

• You don't contest shots without expending energy. You don't get deflections - unless you walk into one every now and then - without expending energy. These are the things in basketball you have to really want to do.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Energy
  • Basketball

• I watch '60 Minutes' and 'Dateline' and '20/20.' I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home I want to touch reality.

  

  Johnny Galecki
  • Work
  • Home
  • Reality

• It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

  

  Louis C. K.