Ghislain's Quotes

#1. I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage. - Author: Steven Wright

#2. A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. - Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. Unlike his predecessors, Obama is not big on 'Masterpiece Theatre' nostalgia. - Author: Tina Brown

#4. Let me just say it out loud so we can laugh together: You're going to find Johnny Depp, take him back to Vahalal, and put him in a zoo? - Author: Gary Ghislain

#5. I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them. - Author: Caitlyn Jenner

#6. I want something real. Something that leads to something more than sex. - Author: Victoria Denault

#7. What's fascinating about doing comedy about the referendum is, because it is the first time, it is the most extraordinary atmosphere. You find that if you are making jokes about politicians, it becomes intensely political. - Author: Rory Bremner

#8. War is fought in mystery. The truth can take days to travel, and ahead of truth flies rumor, and it is ever hard to know what is really happening, and the art of it is to pluck the clean bone of fact from the rotting flesh of fear and lies. - Author: Bernard Cornwell

#9. My dad was the funniest guy I ever knew. - Author: Russell Peters

#10. The night was windy, full of tree sounds. The moon was gone and there was rain, so fine that it was only a tingle on the skin. - Author: Marilynne Robinson

#11. The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy. - Author: Alaa Al Aswany

#12. Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means. - Author: Nelson Mandela

#13. Surely a program of incremental reforms, of cautious steps, is the wisest way to proceed? You show xtraordinary erudition for an eighth-stratum, Archivist. I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps." We - Author: David Mitchell

#14. We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake. - Author: Catherine Fahringer