Maria Semple Quotes
I'm not the comedy police, but you watch a movie, and everyone's laughing, and then you shake it out, and you realize, 'There's no joke there!'
Quotes to Explore
-
There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
-
I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
-
We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.
-
I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
-
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
-
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
-
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
-
We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
-
Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
-
I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
-
Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
-
I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
-
Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
-
India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.
-
I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
-
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
-
If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
-
I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
-
We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation.
-
The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
-
I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
-
No one's pro-police brutality.
-
I'm not the comedy police, but you watch a movie, and everyone's laughing, and then you shake it out, and you realize, 'There's no joke there!'
