Sykes Quotes

#1. If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

George Orwell

#2. I'm going to leave The Wanda Sykes Show and try to get her job because $5 million ain't too bad!

Wanda Sykes

#3. Charlotte Sykes approaching from the washrooms. She had changed into high heels and a tangerine-colored blouse that clashed with all her best intentions.

Amor Towles

#4. Holly Sykes, says Publicity Girl, falling down the sar-chasm.

David Mitchell

#5. The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

Henry Louis Gates

#6. Steady had always suspected Ethan "Ozzie" Sykes, despite his constant joking and bad taste in eighties music, was one tough motherfucker.

Julie Ann Walker

#7. 'Dirtiest Secret' is Dallas Sykes' story. And it is a stand-alone trilogy that readers can come to completely fresh.

Julie Kenner

#8. Sitting in a studio with Oli [Sykes], or going back and forth with Adam [Young] on his tracks, it's so much more fun than something really structured and put together.

Lights

#9. While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes' commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.

Cliff Curtis

#10. So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and ... Wanda Sykes and John Legend ... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

Henry Louis Gates

#11. If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.

Wanda Sykes

#12. You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.

Plum Sykes

#13. I'm a black, gay woman. I think the only way to make the GOP hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around on a pile of welfare checks.

Wanda Sykes

#14. Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.

Wanda Sykes

#15. I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.

Wanda Sykes

#16. The most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me was when I was wearing a hair extension and it fell out on set.

Oliver Sykes

#17. Vegetarians are hotter then meat eaters.

Oliver Sykes

#18. Crime and religion are the only two things that people are willing to both die for and kill over.

Sam Sykes

#19. Where Eve chooses to go, Adam is bound to travel.

Bryan Sykes

#20. I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff.

Oliver Sykes

#21. But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

Wanda Sykes

#22. All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.

Wanda Sykes

#23. I promise," he growled, "to kill only as many people as can reasonably be expected to help.

Sam Sykes

#24. I know every time I fly, I get checked twice: they stop me at security, and then, they get me again at the gate. And last time, it was so bad, they actually made me go through the machine with the luggage.

Wanda Sykes

#25. If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

Wanda Sykes

#26. I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.

Wanda Sykes

#27. Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.

Wanda Sykes

#28. The best defense to inquiry was semi-coherent rants and accusations.

Sam Sykes

#29. A fun read that reminds single girls everywhere that it's fabulous to be single.

Plum Sykes

#30. It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

Wanda Sykes

#31. For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you.

Oliver Sykes

#32. I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

Wanda Sykes

#33. Go back in time. Next question go and look at dinosaurs. I would be sitting on a rock looking at a T- Rex, loving life.

Oliver Sykes

#34. Trying to figure out how to best manage his time between doing a task for imbeciles and avoiding imminent and painful death by protocol. I

Sam Sykes

#35. Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

Wanda Sykes

#36. Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't give a damn. You tell them, 'Hey, I just got back from the motherland.' They're like, 'Where'd you go - Detroit? Did you see The Temptations?'

Wanda Sykes

#37. I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

Wanda Sykes

#38. Whatever I talk about is what I'm interested in at the time. Politics are big with me. But being a mom is taking up most of my time. My act is more family-oriented than it is about politics.

Wanda Sykes

#39. I knew something was wrong with the economy when the shampoo girl at my salon closed on a six bedroom house.

Wanda Sykes

#40. What gets me is when celebrities aren't allowed to have an opinion on anything political. There's the whole 'Shut up and sing' thing.

Wanda Sykes

#41. Since when did I become the spokesperson for nappy-headed hos?

Wanda Sykes

#42. But that's precisely how stupidity flourishes; in bunches, in fast-growing weeds that choke delicately nurtured knowledge.

Sam Sykes

#43. You know what, I think maybe it's because men like to fart, and the host wants to be able to sit in his writers' room and just pass gas freely. Me, I'm a lady. I'm dainty. I know to get up and leave the room and go to my office.

Wanda Sykes

#44. I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman. And I'm proud to be gay.

Wanda Sykes

#45. You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs.

Wanda Sykes

#46. With a black president, I can relax ... I can dance in public ... I can buy a whole watermelon now.

Wanda Sykes

#47. Follow the dream, work hard, inspire and be inspired.

Nathan Sykes

#48. Our DNA does not fade like an ancient parchment; it does not rust in the ground like the sword of a warrior long dead. It is not eroded by wind or rain, nor reduced to ruin by fire and earthquake. It is the traveller from an ancient land who lives within us all.

Bryan Sykes

#49. Well, excuse me for trying to make a joke," Robbie retorted. "You'll never give up

V.K. Sykes

#50. I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big, toothy grin. It's the Sambo of all other offensive mascots. I have never seen a Native American smile that hard before, not even at a casino opening.

Wanda Sykes

#51. Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

Wanda Sykes

#52. You're buying the next one," he said. "The man drinking shouldn't consume more than the man paying. It offends Silf.

Sam Sykes

#53. When my parents send me emails the first 3 are blank.

Wanda Sykes

#54. It's getting harder just to feel alive.

Oliver Sykes

#55. When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

Wanda Sykes

#56. Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up.

Wanda Sykes

#57. Men don't hear women.

Wanda Sykes

#58. The only person to blame is the person making up the bullshit.

Oliver Sykes

#59. A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

Wanda Sykes

#60. When I am outside at night by myself every person turns into a pedophile. So I tend to walk a little faster than usual and then I sprint.

Wanda Sykes

#61. Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I can't be the poster child for everything. At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade and a float and it's a party.

Wanda Sykes

#62. Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Charles J. Sykes

#63. Professionals knew that the most dangerous men in the world were accountants.

Sam Sykes

#64. I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.

Wanda Sykes

#65. Whether you have a show or not, you can still be somewhere being funny.

Wanda Sykes

#66. I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

Wanda Sykes

#67. Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same gene pool or not?

Bryan Sykes

#68. To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in mail one day and be like, I'm Secretary of State next month!

Wanda Sykes

#69. White criminals commit the biggest crimes.a brother might rob a bank. a white man will rob a pension fund. the brother is going to get ten to fifteen years because he had a gun. the white guy is going to get a congressional hearing because he had a job and a nice suit.

Wanda Sykes

#70. Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over.

Wanda Sykes

#71. Myths have a very long memory.

Bryan Sykes

#72. If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

Wanda Sykes

#73. He could sense the word resting on her tongue as a hedonist sensed a tongue resting on something else.

Sam Sykes

#74. Mister Lenk,' he forced through his teeth, 'you are by far the most disgusting. ' Lenk weighed the pouch in his hand, hearing the jingle of coins within. Nodding, he tucked it into his own belt. 'That's why I'm the leader.

Sam Sykes

#75. But I understand that relationship; I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced.

Wanda Sykes

#76. I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.

Wanda Sykes

#77. There are just so many more laws and rules that apply with marriage that do not come with domestic partnership and also to me it's the commitment.

Wanda Sykes

#78. Regardless, my most horrific discovery has been that society is nothing more than a series of carefully calculated choices based solely around economics.

Sam Sykes

#79. If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your
mistakes, learn from them.

Charles J. Sykes

#80. My neighbor, she invited me to an Elvis party. I told her I couldn't come 'cause I'd be too busy making fun of her from behind my blinds.

Wanda Sykes

#81. And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Wanda Sykes

#82. Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and produces it and edits it and all that stuff. We stay with the piece all the way through.

Wanda Sykes

#83. I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.

Wanda Sykes

#84. Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

Bryan Sykes

#85. I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.

Wanda Sykes

#86. Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. I hope his kidneys fail.

Wanda Sykes

#87. I watched a lot of comedy growing up.

Wanda Sykes

#88. I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.

Wanda Sykes

#89. I'm proud of being a vaudevillian, the last of my line. A lot of people think my entertainment is candy-floss. Well, entertainment is too aggressive these days, all 'in your face'.

Eric Sykes

#90. What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

Wanda Sykes

#91. So the blues player, he ain't worried and bothered, but he's got something for the worried people.

Roosevelt Sykes

#92. Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Charles J. Sykes

#93. In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

Wanda Sykes

#94. I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.

Wanda Sykes

#95. We never hid anything from the kids. I feel whole again, I really do. I've told them, 'Mommy's boo-boo is much better now.'

Wanda Sykes

#96. The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'

Wanda Sykes

#97. I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

Wanda Sykes

#98. You can't always tell when someone's keeping something inside and not really happy.

Oliver Sykes

#99. I don't think anyone really knows the purpose of their existence.

Oliver Sykes

#100. It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

Wanda Sykes