Callous Comics Quotes

#1. Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. That puts us in the "on-top" position, where we are competent and in control. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.

Richard J. Foster

#2. Experience tells us that whereas that degree of recognition can happen for one or two actors, for the vast majority it doesn't, so what matters is to try and be a better actor.

Richard McCabe

#3. You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

Sam Mendes

#4. Normal people have nothing to forget.

Emile M. Cioran

#5. No task is too small to not chase perfection and excellence!

Carlo Jose San Juan

#6. Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.

Freya Stark

#7. The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.

Yukio Mishima

#8. The purpose of American culture is to create a norm, Morris. That means extraordinary people must be leveled, and it happens to Jimmy. He ends up working in advertising, for God's sake, and what greater agent of the norm is there in this fucked - up country?

Stephen King

#9. I find rest days such a waste when all I do is rest!

Carlo Jose San Juan

#10. Women receive messages from childhood that they may be rewarded and protected for maintaining a childlike comportment such as being demure, obedient, passive and subservient.

Bryant McGill

#11. They fuck hard and fast at too many gees, his docking hectocotylus locked tight inside her launch adapter.

Charles Stross

#12. Remember the past and work for the future...
But never forget to live today!

Carlo Jose San Juan

#13. What am I doing here?

Arthur Rimbaud

#14. The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.

L. Frank Baum

#15. I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages ... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.

Adam DeVine

#16. Our friends through cables and computer screens are as real as the light and sound waves we alter through thought.

Belinda Subraman

#17. It didn't do to ignore men. The majority of them were harmless, with nothing worse than a low capacity to irritate - they were worse than chiggers but not as bad as bedbugs, in her view.

Larry McMurtry