Colin Quinn Quotes

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

Colin Quinn

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• They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Saying
  • Computers
  • Nonsense

• I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Love
  • Nice
  • Obsessed

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Shine

• The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Democracy
  • Problems
  • Land

• We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • May
  • Free
  • Renaissance

• 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
  • May
  • Game
  • Want

• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Past
  • Look
  • Smile

• In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Time
  • Long
  • Beautiful

• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Ego

• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Life
  • Book
  • Bible

• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Generation
  • Own

• Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Broken
  • Bread

• People would pay money to work at CNN.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Early

• Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Care

• I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Heart
  • Red
  • Chicago

• A lot of times, for videogames, you get almost no time to prepare with a script. You've got a director that's going line for line, filling you in on what's happening, and some games are even less than that.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Time
  • You
  • Director

• I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they are all good religions that help people. As far as I'm concerned, you can have all three religions at once and it's okay!

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • People
  • Good
  • Help

• Jesse Eisenberg, this little nebbishy guy, as Lex Luthor? For me, that's a genius move.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Guy

• Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • People

• How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

  

  David Fincher
  • Time
  • Movie

• Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

  

  Colin Quinn
  • Comedy