Gyngemose Quotes & Sayings

Conan O'Brien has talked about how comedians try to emulate their heroes, fall short, and end up doing their own thing. Johnny Carson tried to be Jack Benny but ended up Johnny Carson. David Letterman tried to copy Johnny Carson but ended up David Letterman. And Conan O'Brien tried to be David Letterman but ended up Conan O'Brien. In O'Brien's words, "It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique." Thank goodness. — Austin Kleon

The hero, in living her own life, in being true to herself; radiates a light by which others may see their own way. — Laurence Boldt

There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage ... In the movies. — George Clooney

Here's the secret to weight loss: It's all about crowding out, not cutting out. — Kathy Freston

Homosexuality is neither a sin, nor an anomaly or a disease. It is an evolutionary variation. — Abhijit Naskar

Sign at a Tennessee highway: When this sign is under water, this road is impassable. — Dave Barry

The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation. — Bill Cosby

Because there's this invisible line, and on one side are people like Garrett and Abby and Nick and every musician ever. People who go to parties and drink and don't get wasted off of one beer. People who have had sex and don't think it's a huge deal.
On the other side of the line are people like Leah and me.
But the one thing that makes it weirdly better is knowing that Blue is one of us. — Becky Albertalli

THE STRONGEST MAN ALIVE IS THE MAN WHO CAN HOLD HIS PEACE IN THE FACE OF EVERY AGGRAVATION, AND THE WEAKEST ONE IS HE WHO CANNOT HOLD THAT PEACE! — Werner Schroeder

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. — David Cross

We're only given one life, and it's the one we live, she thought; how painful now, to realize that wasn't true, that you would have different lives, depending on how brave you were, and how ready. Love came to her that day - she was twenty-two - and wanted to take her, and she said no.
Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes? Happiness came that day - she knew nothing - and asked her to say yes and she did not. Why did she assume it would come back again, when there were so many others waiting for it to visit? — Samuel Park

You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun. — Frank Vincent

I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical! — Erin O'Connor

I am a Pen & I am born to Write. — Himanshu Chhabra

If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget. — Dale Carnegie