Birbiglia David Quotes & Sayings

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love. — Gayle Forman

Today I felt like a part of something awesome, the human race. I know it can be ugly; it really is in so many ways. But today there was nothing ugly to see, just people trying to be better. And maybe that's the key. Not resolutions and forgotten promises, but instead a commitment to do this year a little better than the last. I'm feeling good about this one. I really am. — Andrew McMahon

Media is so weird; everything is so accessible now. It used to be this thing where, if you did something on 'This American Life,' this predates me, but when David Sedaris did it, for example, it would just play, people who heard it heard it, and then the book would come out a year later, and people would be like, 'Ahh, I kind of remember that.' — Mike Birbiglia

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely. — Kate Winslet

I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible. — Asif Kapadia

Sleep is a blessing. — J.R. Rain

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. — Alfred Korzybski

Camelot, located nowhere in particular, can be anywhere. — Norris J. Lacy

I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is. — Michael Hirst

Independence is not achieved simply by not obeying mother, father, state, and the like. Independence is not the same as disobedience. Independence is possible only if, and according to the degree to which, man actively grasps the world, is related to it, and thus becomes one with it. There is no independence and no freedom unless man arrives at the stage of complete inner activity and productivity. — Erich Fromm

The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose ... Man does not live by bread alone. Those in the United States whose desire to create a strictly secular society is as strong as Lenin's was should study this Cold War lesson closely. Communism was defeated by an alliance spearheaded by 'one nation under God.' — Richard M. Nixon

We keep on burying our dead/
We keep on planting their bones in the ground/
But they won't grow/
The sun doesn't help/
The rain doesn't help. — Regina Spektor

I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so infuriating. It's like, 'Who is this guy, and why does he have a memoir?' David Letterman could write a memoir. Joan Rivers could. I'm just a nobody. I'm a comedian and a writer. — Mike Birbiglia

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt. — George Herbert

All of us that read a lot, we're partly book-manufactured. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them. — Laurette Taylor

Language is not so important in this country. If you want to understand one another, you do. — Laurie Fabiano