"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."

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Source : "The 2,000 Year Old Man". Animation, Comedy, 1975.

Mel Brooks

#Funny Quotes #Death Quotes #Suicide Quotes

“For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.”
“Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look.”
“I will take a pie in the face any time for a worthy cause.”
“The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the intercession of celestial spirits. Music was used as the bridge between these planes. Thus we see why music was religious in nature, and music was looked upon as a sacred art.”
“The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.”
“Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.”

Source : Jonathan Alter (2010). “The Promise: President Obama, Year One”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
“So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.”
“I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.”

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