"God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny."

-- Garrison Keillor

#Funny Quotes #Life Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286 pound Silver Medalist Ghaffari (who broke down in tears on the medal stand) summed up his disappointment after an overtime loss to Aleksandr Karelin of Russia. A win would have given Ghaffari not only the Olympic gold medal but also his first victory over Karelin, something of which he has literally dreamed about after 20 meets between the two. Karelin dominates international competition in the sport.”
“I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.”
“To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.”
“I dont believe in an eye for an eye, I believe in two eyes for an eye”
“Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who was uglier than he had any business to be;" and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.”
“For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty.”
“I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.”
“We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.”

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