Lewis Grizzard Stand Up Quotes & Sayings

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream — William Shakespeare

Pursue your dreams. You have one life to awe the world.
Use your powerful words to change the world. — Anna Glazebrook

BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up. — Carl Safina

Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it ... — Mary Hays

I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching. — Thomas Huxley

Count Olaf had taken out a bottle of wine to pour himself some breakfast, but when he saw the book he stopped, and sat down. — Lemony Snicket

The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed. — Paul LePage

What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.' — Salman Rushdie

If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God. The Spirit's primary vehicle for moving and speaking in our lives is the Scriptures — Anonymous

I wish I had, for as sure as there is a God in heaven, if he ever does you any wrong, I shall kill him. — Oscar Wilde