Tim Meadows Quotes

#1. The greater number of men are merely corporals.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.

Tim Meadows

#3. If you take the time to visit rural regions, where horsemen ride by and yurts are set up in summer meadows, you will come to know that the Kazak culture lives on.

Tim Cope

#4. I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

Paula Radcliffe

#5. I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!

Tim Meadows

#6. Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

Tim Meadows

#7. Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities.

Tim Meadows

#8. I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

Tim Meadows

#9. Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.

Jan Potocki

#10. I was really shy as a kid.

Tim Meadows

#11. I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.

Franklin Foer

#12. I was not funny growing up.

Tim Meadows

#13. At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.

Tim Meadows

#14. A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!

Niall Horan

#15. The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism was specifically invoked.

Nina Power

#16. In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.

Tim Meadows

#17. Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile ...

Theodore White

#18. Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

Tim Meadows

#19. It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#20. Therefore by the example of Abram, entire self-renunciation is enjoined, that we may live and die to God alone.

John Calvin

#21. I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

Tim Meadows

#22. For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#23. Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Jackie Chan

#24. A soul can weigh a thousand suns or nothing at all.

Dimitri Zaik

#25. As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them.

Abhijit Naskar

#26. Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

Tim Meadows

#27. Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

Tim Meadows