Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 12035.

  • James Thurber Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Christopher Fry Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
    Christopher Fry
    English poet and playwright (1907 - 2005)
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  • Bill Hader Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Bryan Callen Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Carlos Ponce Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
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  • Benjamin Tucker Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • William Blake Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Carlos Ghosn Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
    "Q&A with Carlos Ghosn" published in CNN website on December 7, 2006.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Common people do not pray; they only beg.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Victor Hugo Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Voltaire Common sense is not so common.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • John Masefield Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • John F. Kennedy Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Henry George Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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