Kinison Comedy Quotes & Sayings

Hi there. I am the Gwarda, Breccan, the good-looking, sweet one." He winked. "The one thundering, yet, remaining aloof," he said loudly and continued, "is Darius. He's a savage, you know," he said quietly, leaning closer like he was telling her a secret. — Madison Thorne Grey

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man. — Sam Kinison

In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke ... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society. — Sam Kinison

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. — Sam Kinison

I could never resist the call of the trail. — Buffalo Bill

Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change. — Sam Kinison

In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important. — Will Rogers

Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better remain unwritten. They would at least never become works of art. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy. — Sam Kinison

Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way. — Feist

All religions are true but none are literal. — Joseph Campbell

Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development. — Rudolf Rocker

... to pause is to win & to rest can actually be part of the victory. — Annie F. Downs

Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause. — Sam Kinison

I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays. — Sam Kinison

Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them! — Kathy Sierra

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move. — Sam Kinison

Nothing will be the same without him."
Micah nods slowly. "I know what you're saying. I guess I'm just wondering how we know when to give up and move on."
I shake my head. "Not yet. I'm not ready to quit fighting. — Paula Stokes

In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused. — Michael Crichton

Too many of us," she said, "take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes. Wouldn't you say? — Brandon Sanderson

I love Dallas, Austin and Houston. Why? Because some of the best comedians, like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, started their careers in Texas, and because the crowds there are comedy-educated. — Bobby Lee

I mean, I love Comic-Con. — Seth Rogen