Waiting For Guffman Quotes

#1. Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

Ted Allen

#2. When you have understood the piece of the world you want to change, and aligned your will with the world as it actually is, then and only then can you begin to change it;

Steven Brust

#3. I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

Kurt Busiek

#4. Dartmouth Winter Carnival opens, proving once again that bitter cold is no obstacle to going completely out of control.

Lisa Birnbach

#5. In order to have a peace that surpasses all understanding, you have to give up your right to understand

Bill Johnson

#6. The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

Victor Hugo

#7. [Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz ... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

Nicolas Roeg

#9. There are two kinds of sins:
those that affect an individual,
and those that affect the nation.
The latter the king must take seriously;
the former is between God and the individual.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. She is not in my books, and what kind of man would choose words that are already written over what might still be?

Erika Swyler

#11. There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

Edith Wharton

#12. If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom; if you are courteous to them and they do not respond, look into your courtesy. If what you do is vain, always seek within.

Mencius

#13. Man, I hate waking up with a dead hooker.

Dan Henderson

#14. Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

Augustus

#15. The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people's lives.

Guy Kawasaki

#16. Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

Leo Ornstein