"To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat."

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Source : "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, 1999.

Peter Sellers

#Labels Quotes #Comedy Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.”
“How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in this world and a compassionate entry into the next. After failure and defeat, a concentration upon certain beauties, though forever lost and unretrievable, can lift the wounded past roundedness and the dying past dying, protecting them with an image, still and bright, that will ride with them on their long ride, never to fade and never to retreat.”
“Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?”
“I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.”
“Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.”
“The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.”
“Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.”

Source : Roger Tory Peterson (2012). “Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Pennsylvania”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends.”

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