Richard Pryor Jokes Quotes & Sayings

When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises. — Richard Lewis

I could hear only the slight murmur of the city, faint and rhythmic as the breaking of waves on a distant shore. The statues glistened in the moonlight, and in the early morning hours the wind sometimes wafted the spicy aroma of vegetables from the near-by Halles. — Anonymous

Destiny is for the weak; strong men build their own lives. — John Marco

One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly. — R. Buckminster Fuller

You had room for four kids sitting or six standing up. It had been a pirate ship, Nemo's Nautilus, and a canoe for the Lenni Lennape among other things. Today the water was maybe three and a half feet deep. She seemed happy to be there, not scared at all. "We call this the Big Rock," I said. "We used to, I mean. When we were kids." "I like it," she said. "Can I see the crayfish? I'm Meg." "I'm David. Sure." She peered down into the can. Time went by and we said nothing. She studied them. Then she straightened up again. "Neat." "I just catch 'em and look at 'em awhile and then let them go." "Do they bite?" "The big ones do. They can't hurt you, though. And the little ones just try to run." "They look like lobsters." "You never saw a crayfish before? — Jack Ketchum

Distinction is purchased at the expense of sympathy — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Psychologically, what was happening to the liberated prisoners could be called "depersonalization." Everything appeared unreal, unlikely, as in a dream. We could not believe it was true. — Viktor E. Frankl

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great. — Olivier Martinez

Displays of weapons will not be able to bring peace, only displays of love and understanding can do that. — Debasish Mridha

Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness — H.L. Mencken

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

On two separate occasions he's told people in Los Angeles that he's from Canada and they've asked about igloos. An allegedly well-educated New Yorker once listened carefully to his explanation of where he's from - southwestern British Columbia, an island between Vancouver Island and the mainland - and then asked, apparently in all seriousness, if this means he grew up near Maine. — Emily St. John Mandel

Love is motion Potter love is forward movement but you said yourself the memory reel backward it's all backward with you. You are stuck back there because Potter you don't let yourself move forward your eyes get stuck on things and people. — Kyle Beachy