Charles Ludlam Quotes

#1. I'm just helping someone who is unfortunate. Is that a crime?

Shannon A. Thompson

#2. All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.

Karen Salmansohn

#3. The theater has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told.

Charles Ludlam

#4. If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.

Charles Ludlam

#5. My Prayer? Oh' Lord give me the mind of a warrior that has been taught to fear your name, The soul of a prophet with the tongue and courage to speak truth though I be surrounded by those that despise it and the heart of a boy that believes he can slay a giant

Tonny K. Brown

#6. Some people like to garden, some people like motorcycle riding ... my hobby is winning.

Jack Passion

#7. Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

Charles Ludlam

#8. Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves ...

Luis Marques

#9. He passed through her with his soul caressing hers goodbye. And in that final hour he was with her one last time.

Donna Lynn Hope

#10. Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off the table and spilling cups of water and crumpling pages of books. That is, she was almost her old self.

Jeanne DuPrau

#11. So this is the only TV show in America where I am quite confident that you, the audience, will share my excitement when I tell you that coming up in our next segment, we have the best graph ever. Best graph ever.

Rachel Maddow

#12. What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Cesare Pavese

#13. If he was going to be held hostage to this unwanted compulsion, then she was damn well coming along for the ride.

Nalini Singh

#14. He wanted to be wanted, not simply be a body used as a means to an end.

Felice Stevens

#15. You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low.

Charles Ludlam

#16. I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid a tumor.

Gwyneth Paltrow