Cecil Gershwin Quotes & Sayings

Maybe he thinks wild translates into easy, Ryder said.
Or maybe he likes wild, I responded.
Maybe, but I bet he thinks you're easy.
You're killing my moment, Ryder.
OK, be happy he thinks you're easy. — Michelle Flick

There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental. — Alexis Taylor

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity. — Jonathan Miller

My behavior makes perfect sense to me. — Heidi Julavits

To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action; — Mark Manson

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him. — Edward Sapir

Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey. — Mayer Hawthorne

So, still not a fan of the beard? Sign me up and call me a convert. — Kristen Callihan

The moon's weird though, right? It's there, and there, and then suddenly it's not. And it seems to be pretty far up. Is it watching us? If not, what is it watching instead? Is there something more interesting than us? Hey, watch us moon! We may not always be the best show in the universe, but we try. — Cecil Baldwin

The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses. — Neville Cardus

We have nothing to speak about. There never was. Words are an unnecessary trouble. Expression is time wasting away. Any communication is just a yelp in the darkness. I am speaking now but I am saying nothing. I am just making noises, and, as it happens, they are organized in words and you should not draw meaning from this. — Cecil Baldwin

From the Grapes of Wrath and a woman that would not be moved: 'On'y way you gonna get me to go is whup me.' She moved the jack handle gently again. 'An' I'll shame you, Pa. I won't take no whuppin', cryin' an' a-beggin'. I'll light into you. An' you ain't so sure you can whup me anyways. An' if ya do get me, I swear to God I'll wait till you got your back turned, or you're settin' down, an' I'll knock you belly-up with a bucket. I swear to Holy Jesus' sake I will. — John Steinbeck

Remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget. — Cecil Baldwin

It's my damn duty and obligation to do everything possible for Europe to find a united path. — Angela Merkel

It's nice to have a station pet. Wish it wasn't trapped in a hovering prison in the men's bathroom, but listen: no pet is perfect. It becomes perfect when you learn to accept it for what it is. — Cecil Baldwin

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s. — P.G. Wodehouse

And now a brief public service announcement. Alligators: can they kill your children? Yes. — Cecil Baldwin

Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture. — Robert Crumb

There was always something worse. — Robert Ferrigno

Sometimes you go through things that seem huge at the time, like a mysterious glowing cloud devouring your entire community. While they're happening, they feel like the only thing that matters and you can hardly imagine that there's a world out there that might have anything else going on. And then the glow cloud moves on. And you move on. And the event is behind you. And you may find, as time passes, that you remember it less and less. Or absolutely not at all, in my case. — Cecil Baldwin