Jokesmith Quotes

#1. To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

John Leguizamo

#2. I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.

Rowan Atkinson

#3. No matter how tough you think you are, thought you were, you haven't been around long enough to be tested in many, many ways.

John Varley

#4. To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.

Paul Auster

#5. I love pop music, but I don't want to be Celine Dion.

Vonda Shepard

#6. Separately, they called our English teacher to register their horror at their offspring being taught about witches, which apparently was an insult to both Islam and Christianity. The English teacher instructed us to white-out the word witches and write in weird sisters.

Bill Campbell

#7. Their heartbeats fought each other, a mess of rhythm. Liesel tried to eat hers down. The taste of heart was not too cheerful.

Markus Zusak

#8. But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.

Roy DeCarava

#9. There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.

Marguerite Duras

#10. Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.

Carl Ludwig

#11. O, reason not the need!

William Shakespeare

#12. But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.

Jonah Goldberg