Nittany Quotes & Sayings

I'm a lot smarter and thoughtful of a comedian. This market is different than it was. You don't have to have cable to hear this comedy. It comes on a basic channel, and that's one of the biggest differences between now than when I first started. — Joe Torry

Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss. — Laurence Sterne

What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid. — Robert Ringer

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters. — Andy Garcia

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too. — Vladimir Lenin

Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because, well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk. — Gene Wilder

Anarchists have a 'bad name' in the media, not because they can point to one indiscriminate massacre by anarchists--there have been none--but because the one thing holders of power fear is that they personally should be held responsible for their own actions — Stuart Christie

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. — Goldwin Smith

I have to save the parts of my soul that are left for the good roles and the true love. — Madeline Zima

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics. — Vladimir Lenin

They needed a date. They had been saying that for months. He would give her a date. He imagined grandiose affairs with fine clothes and elaborate food in luxurious surroundings. A film of her choice or a couple hours in a bookstore would have suited her, and him. This weekend would pass like all the others. Time would steadily work its way past them. Monday would bring another airplane. — John T. Sonne

There is no half-measure--NO scratching on the surface of the rubbish heap of tradition will bring about Reform, the only method is Absolute Demolition — Mina Loy