"During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Jerry Stiller

#Depression Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.”
“I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.”
“[Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.”
“Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together”
“The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.”
“There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.”

Source : Edward Hoagland (1993). “The Courage of Turtles”, The Lyons Press
“We learn to walk when weâ€™re babies and never forget unless weâ€™re drunk.”
“I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me to want to give what she felt was a better chance.”

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