Revues Quotes & Sayings

One of my dinner companions invited me on a strip-club excursion. I demurred, spoiled by the erotic revues of Anhedonia, where the performers remain fully clothed but get emotionally naked, delivering monologues about their top-shelf disappointments, and times when they were almost happy. Hard to enjoy American-style strip clubs after that. Once you go bleak, you never go back. — Colson Whitehead

From Genesis to Revelation, here's the central message: God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God, the Triune God is in control of all things, period. — Charles Stanley

Yeah, well, I don't do touchy-feely. I do punchy-bleedy. — Alex Bledsoe

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude. — Bart Starr

flesh had become a frequent component of the revues — Paul Willetts

You don't care what people think," he said.
She couldn't tell from the way he emphasized the words if he was asking a question or making an observation. Still, she felt obliged to answer.
"Of course I care. To a certain extent we all care, but we can't care to the point that we live in fear of others' opinion, that we allow them to change who we are. We must be willing to stand up and defend what represents the very core of our being. Otherwise what is the purpose of individuality? We'd be nothing but imitations of each other, and I daresay we'd all be rather boring. — Lorraine Heath

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures. — Patrick Ness

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be — Evelyn Waugh

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world. — Mamie Gummer

It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues. — Adolph Green

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in. — Bernard Sahlins

Funny, how the things you have the hardest time parting with are the things you need the least. — Bob Dylan

I will piss on deadlines. I will forget I am married. I will do nothing but read, read, read when it's a Book Affair. — Lainey