Agudas Achim Quotes & Sayings

After fifteen years of making my living in stand-up, The Sarah Silverman Program has been a lesson in collaboration. Rob, Dan, and I live by the mantra "Whoever is most passionate." If I was mentoring someone, that's the Shandling-esque advice I would proffer: Find people you really respect and trust, and then at each decision, heed the most passionate voice. I love that because it eliminates nearly all struggle. And when you're doing a show that's mostly about farts, penises, and vaginas, there should be as little struggle as possible. — Sarah Silverman

Commander Huron, I should like to inquire after one of your flight officers."

"Would that be Ensign Kennakris, ma'am?"

"Do you always answer the question like that?"

"Well, ma'am, she does have a way of getting people's attention."

"I've been told she scares the living shit out of people."

"That's one of the ways she gets their attention. — Owen R. O'Neill

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. — Victor Hugo

You're only given as much as you can handle, before going back for seconds — Josh Stern

One time I was painting a sign / graphics on a temporary wall over a store front being remodeled in a mall. This was in the old days, before digital graphics, when everything was hand painted. A guy watched me for a while and then asked : "Isn't that just a temporary wall?" "Yes", I replied. And he said: "They're paying you, probably a lot of money, to paint that on a temporary wall?" I said: " You know, this whole mall is temporary ... some day this will all be gone." He got sort of a frightened look on his face and walked awa — Jeff Young

It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason. — Robert Morrison MacIver

Above all shadows rides the Sun
and Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
nor bid the Stars farewell. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him. — Robert Leighton

You thinks there's this thing between us, but there never was, and there never will be. - Amy Cahill — Jeff Hirsch