I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.
When you have nothing to say, sing it.
[Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book. All they do is reassure people of their basic opinions, and then they can continue to act like they've always acted. I'd say it's time to move on to something else, but I don't know what it would be.
I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.
To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but they're cautious for the most part in saying when those cures will arrive.
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
The first time I read Marx, all I knew was he had given rise to this [Soviet] system that was supposed to be more or less the devil's work. It's disconcerting to read what he had to say and see that a lot of it was very human and very decent and didn't seem to be the work of the devil at all.
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
Fredrick Buechner kind of loosened up my clerical collar, you might say.
This is a dreadful thing to say, but I have wondered in my darker hours that, if everything were legal, wouldn't it be kind of a Darwinian solution to a lot of problems? Who are the bikies that you see who are cruisin' around with no helmet or with a hat turned around like that yoyo in Cheap Trick? They're dummies, and if they splatter their brains all over the sidewalk, they're not going to be collecting food stamps.
I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'
I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.
Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this.
I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.
You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.