200 A 1821 Quotes & Sayings

I think most comedians go through that (period), where you have to change or evolve. You don't want to just keep doing variations on the same themes. And, besides, it would look kinda creepy for a guy my age to be doing stuff that, like, a 20-year-old would do. 'Yeah, this is bullshit!' It's, like, 'Really? You don't have bigger concerns at this point in your life?' — Patton Oswalt

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind. — William James

The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home. — Theodore Parker

For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it
even of my own music
with the same nuances forever. — Aaron Copland

A life has to move or it stagnates. — Beryl Markham

Life, or the specter of life, is constantly challenging us for acts we've never committed. And sometimes for acts we never even thought of committing. — Roberto Bolano

And there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor? — Cary Grant

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I like potatoes
and so do you — Myself

I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved. — Elizabeth Cotten

The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice system (or saddled with criminal records) is not - as many argue - just a symptom of poverty or poor choices, but rather evidence of a new racial caste system at work. — Michelle Alexander

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism. — Lady Gaga

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war. — James Fenton

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid. — Desmond Tutu

I see things as they happen pretty quick, and I just go hit it. — Brian Urlacher

Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death. — Kathleen Kennedy