Political Humorists Quotes & Sayings

It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS. — Lucy Powell

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand. — Robin Williams

I have no reason as a director to have films go up in versions that I don't like. My only experience of film after ten years is honestly that if a picture doesn't get second-guessed you're looking at four Oscars, and if a picture does get second-guessed, you're not. I've got an advanced degree in that lesson. — William Monahan

If your comfort zone is misery, it's time to get uncomfortable. — Charles F. Glassman

I'm so thankful that I've received The answer that heaven has sent down to me You treated me kind Sweet destiny And I'll be eternally grateful — Mariah Carey

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them. — Anne Fadiman

Anyone who believes he has caught him in a fantastic lie is apt to find out that the fantastic story is the truth. And some unimportant statement, like just having bought an evening paper a half-hour ago, is the lie."

--On Orson Welles — Bernard Herrmann

Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it. — William Feather

My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music. — Bob Seger

Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle? — Padre Pio

I thank everyone I don't love.
They don't cause me heartache
they don't make me write long letters
they don't disturb my dreams
I don't await them anxiously
I don't read their horoscopes in magazines
I don't dial their numbers
I don't think of them.
I thank them a lot
they don't turn my life upside down. — Dunya Mikhail

I think being consistent is really important. In the arts there's a misconception that you sit around waiting for the muse to come, and that it's all really mystical and mysterious. In reality, sometimes you have to fake it till you make it. — Ayana Mathis

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help. — Paula Abdul

Embarrassing facts, those would really help our children remember their classroom lessons better. — Bauvard