Invalent Quotes & Sayings

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there. — Jake Johnson

Not a deed would he do,
Not a word would he utter,
Till he's weighed its relation
To plain bread and butter. — James Russell Lowell

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach. — Madame De Stael

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. — Zhuangzi

In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director. — Heather Graham

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world! — Rita Dove

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it. — Jorge Luis Borges

She unsettled him; he anchored her. Together, they could be more than they were apart. — Tessa Dare

The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives. — Roy Davis

Animals, People and Trees Will All Bow
By My Very Appearance.
I Bowed When I Was Born.
P.C.M. Hermans — Petra Hermans

The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis. — Edwidge Danticat