Overrepresented Quotes

#1. Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

Robert Klein

#2. Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.

Andrew Sullivan

#3. No hell could be worse than an office job.

James Wymore

#4. A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

Gish Jen

#5. What kind of Muslim are you?
Are you a once-a-lifetime, once-a-year, once-a-week, once-a-day man?

Farahad Zama

#6. If you don't look for Trouble, how can you know it's there?

Carol Kendall

#7. Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.

Edward Abbey

#8. It's like being in the position of - in half of the industry's mind, you're kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you're a sellout. But neither one of them are right.

Ben Folds

#9. I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.

Jon Hamm

#10. Be brave. Even if you're not pretend to be.
No one can tell the difference.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#11. Some girls have a real sexy giggle, but whenever I laugh it always comes out somewhere between a bellow and a snort!

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#12. My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

Abraham Lincoln

#13. A stone image shed a miraculous tear of compassion over the incertitudes of life and death ...

Joseph Conrad

#14. I sit and reach for the computer.
I look at its battery.
I envy how often it dies.

Spencer Madsen