Wanda Sykes Quotes

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

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• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Humility
  • Foundation

• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Think
  • Political
  • Party

• The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Writer
  • Impact

• When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Long
  • Information

• Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Long
  • Live
  • Anything Is Possible

• The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • True
  • Success
  • Promise

• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Age
  • Culture

• Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Relationship

• As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Sounds

• When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

  

  Banks
  • Thinking
  • Feel
  • Better

• You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • People
  • Light
  • Down

• I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Fashion
  • Wilderness
  • Connect

• I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Mean
  • Friendship
  • Outside

• What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Men
  • Job
  • Man

• Money is a kind of poetry.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Money
  • Kind
  • Poetry

• People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • People
  • Person
  • Certain

• I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Lonely

• I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every single idea, I need to prove myself. I am tired of it!

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Idea
  • Prove
  • Tire

• I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• I did a lot of 'NYPD Blues' and 'Law & Orders' and a couple of other ones that were shot in New York earlier in my career.

  

  Frank Vincent
  • Career
  • Law
  • Couple

• In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

  

  Charlotte Lennox
  • Revenge
  • Enemies
  • Superior

• Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

  

  Francis Bacon
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy