Pratfaller Quotes & Sayings

Tiers of mountains
Cold wind feet
Not need fan
Ice cold through
Moon shines bright
Mist covers everything
Sit all alone
One old man — Hanshan

Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape, — Alison Gopnik

You do not need to be within the single market to be able to export to the European Union, as we see from the wide range of goods on our shelves every day. — Nigel Lawson

Jealousy is like wasabe - a little can add excitement to your salmon sashimi but too much can make you cry and trigger facial contortions. I find it very flattering if someone is jealous of me. It is an affirmation that I am hot and spectacular. It is a confirmation of my value and importance. Yes, I am vain. — Jessica Zafra

The fact is that when you admit that you can't blame anyone or anything else, you begin to blame yourself. The human mind gives up trying to find an executioner, but still it must blame someone. Anger that is not expressed tends to turn inward and, instead, attacks the very one who feels it. You move from anger and guilt into depression. — Kate McGahan

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief. — Thomas Jefferson

Words, Grif. Tell me how you're feeling. — Joseph Lance Tonlet

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower. — Isaac Stern

It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt. — Francis Bacon

Dan thought of another AA aphorism: We're powerless over people, places, and things. Like most alkie nuggets, it was seventy percent true and thirty percent rah-rah bullshit. — Stephen King

My Master ...
Say all you wish of me.
It does not matter to me:Shallow.. Stupid.. Crazy.. Simple minded.
It does not concern me anymore.
For whoever writes about her concerns.
in the logic of Men is called
a stupid woman.
and didn't I tell you in the beginning
that I am a stupid woman? — Nizar Qabbani

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience. — James T. Farrell

If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers. — James Wolcott

When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent. — Jose Antonio Vargas