“Oh, I'm a martyr to music.”
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Funny Quotes — page 206 of 1263
“I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.”
“He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.”
“A man is only as faithful as his options.”
“One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.”
“In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.”
“Seriously, the Olympic badminton players were apparently trying to lose on purpose, a big story. But really, think about it, if you train day and night for four years to be in the Olympics for badminton, in a way, haven't you already lost?”
“Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.”
“Only comedies can get you that engaged in a movie, dramas people just sort of sit there and eat their popcorn and nothing really happens, they might cry a little bit, but that's it. Horror movies are talking at the screen, guys are elbowing each other, laughing at each other because they got scared. That's the beauty of a horror movie.”
“A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught”
“Believe me, nothing is trivial.”
“Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.”
“Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?”
“I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.”
“A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’”
“We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.”
“What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.”
“Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.”
“I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.”
“We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.”