Pearse Lenz Quotes & Sayings

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. — Sid Caesar

You got me out of this place and here's your reward; you're everything we jointly abominate. The essence of what we're committed to destroy. — Philip K. Dick

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. — Carl Jung

Every exchange making him feel like an idiot, making him draw his spine up straight and making him fiddle with his hair, and all he wanted to do was to see her naked on the floor. Not brutal, not unkind, enraptured. — Robert Goolrick

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration. — Steve Martin

Every time I see myself in print or on TV, I feel like a little white girl. I feel fat. — Bun B.

I believe with all my heart that standing up for America means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land. We need God's help to guide our nation through stormy seas. But we can't expect Him to protect America in a crisis if we just leave Him over on the shelf in our day-to-day living. Speech, New Orleans, November 16, 1982 — Ronald Reagan

Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to drive home good intentions; if only we had a pipe wrench to tighten hearts in everlasting love; a saw that we could use to make a clean cut with the past! — Stefano Benni

Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto. — John Barrymore

Did I tell you about Anton?" Loots said.
Anton?" I shook my head.
It was a week ago, Loots said. There had been a knock on the door of his apartment and when he opened it his old friend Anton was standing there. Anton was a clown. He belonged to a circus that toured the provinces, playing to small towns and villages. They talked about the old days for a while, but Anton became increasingly restless and distracted. In the end Loots had to ask him if there was something wrong.
This is going to sound strange." The clown coughed nervously into his fist. "It's The Invisible Man. He's disappeared."
Loots stared at his friend.
He just vanished," Anton said, "into thin air."
The Invisible Man?" Loots said.
Yes."
He's disappeared?"
I told you it would sound strange," Anton said. — Rupert Thomson

Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you. — Alfred Hitchcock