1977 The Comic Quotes & Sayings

I'm not really a big candy eater. — Brittany Murphy

I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write music, a lot of the influences come from personal experiences or from being on the outside looking in, being that person who witnessed things that stuck with me throughout my life. — Adam Hicks

At our age, loneliness can seem so permanent. — Jonathan Tropper

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Really, monsieur, I should regard you as a coward, and a traitor too, if I did not, with greater justice, regard you as a madman. — Alexandre Dumas

I've never been a yes man. — Rogers Hornsby

From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone. — Jane Hamilton

This book was supposed to be finished at Easter, like God. — Nick Land

The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' The first single. It's effing brilliant, right? ... That's what everybody wants ... They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years.
They just want to hold your hand. — Rachel Cohn

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead. — Shirley Hazzard

In much of my life from 1977 to 1987 people appear who are known in the public world and to whom I cannot give convincing pseudonyms. If I told you, for example, that at university I met a man called Lew Horrie and that we embarked on a comic career together it might not take great insight or too much Googling on your part to know that I was writing about a real person. — Anonymous

World War II ended in a battle for a single buildng, Germany's Reichstag ... 7,000 German troops defending the building ... Nearly 5,000 men died in a battle for the building. — Andrei Cherny

There's a sickness in my soul,
and I don't know,
but I've been told it's incurable — Everlast

One neural network called bidirectional associative memory (BAM) allows you to provide the value and receive the key. — Jeff Heaton

One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts
they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in. — Georg Simmel

But if time exists only in my head, and I'm the last human being, it will end with my death. The thought cheers me. I may be in a position to murder time. The big net will tear and fall, with its sad contents, into oblivion. I'm owed some gratitude, but no one after my death will know I murdered time. Really these thoughts are quite meaningless. Things happen, and, like millions of people before me, I look for meaning in them, because my vanity will not allow me to admit that the whole meaning of an event lies in the event itself. — Marlen Haushofer