Wanda Sykes Quotes
It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
Quotes to Explore
-
I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
-
Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
-
After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
-
Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
-
San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
-
Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.
-
The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
-
If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
-
I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
-
If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
-
I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
-
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
-
Reading is power. Reading is life.
-
I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
-
Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
-
Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
-
The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
-
My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
-
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
-
It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
-
I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.
-
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
-
It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
