Riffing Comedy Quotes & Sayings

Any creator owes a debt to past creation. — Lukas Foss

What you need is sustained outrage ... there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority. — Molly Ivins

In moments of doubt I cry, 'Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?'

'Whence then came thy dream?' answers Hope. — George MacDonald

Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there. — Natalie Portman

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something. — Billy Crystal

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief. — Martha Beck

He knew she loved him in that moment. Gabe never wanted to be part of the holy fight, but now he was, he was not about to lose. — Wendy Owens

Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures. — Rainer Maria Rilke