Gary Owen Quotes

#1. The words of authority are corrupted by those who speak them.

Virginia Woolf

#2. We fight wars. We fight for peace. We fight hunger. We love to fight. We fight and fight and fight, with our guns or mouths or money. And the planet is never one lick better than it was before us.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. Einstein himself said, You can speak of the ethical foundations of science, but you cannot speak of the scientific foundations of ethics.

Eric Metaxas

#4. Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

Gary Owen

#5. There's no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They're going to get their hair done, get a new outfit, and come out to see a white dude.

Gary Owen

#6. I just want a big HBO special or a network or somebody willing to get behind my work and promote it. The most frustrating thing for me is to have this successful act that resonates across the country, and the network guys just don't get it. Everyone sees it except them. I want to leave a mark.

Gary Owen

#7. Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

Gerald W. Johnson

#8. God's love freely working in us never fails to embrace others, helping them love too. - Jane Owen -

Gary Chapman

#9. God can take anything that happens to us - even bad things - and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person - if we will let Him.

Billy Graham

#10. Flash 'em the sass before you flash 'em the ass.

Sara Wolf

#11. Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

Eugene Jarecki

#12. If on such grounds, or on better ones, we follow the course in which humanity has been led, and become Christians, we then have the 'Problem of Pain

C.S. Lewis

#13. I am an average player, but even the great players don't have an average of 42, with a strike-rate of 75.

Misbah-ul-Haq

#14. I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.

Gary Owen

#15. When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.

Clarence Thomas

#16. There's still people who think me being married to a sista is an act. What, you think I'd make that up for a persona?

Gary Owen

#17. The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

Tim O'Reilly

#18. Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.

Gary Owen