Sigelman And Rider Quotes & Sayings

Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it. — Anthony Jeselnik

How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the designer specifies building materials and assembly instructions. (4) Finally, the designer or some surrogate applies the assembly instructions to the building materials. What emerges is a designed object, and the designer is successful to the degree that the object fulfills the designer's purpose — William A. Dembski

Original sin itself comes straight from the Old Testament myth of Adam and Eve. Their sin - eating the fruit of a forbidden tree - seems mild enough to merit a mere reprimand. But the symbolic nature of the fruit (knowledge of good and evil, which in practice turned out to be knowledge that they were naked) was enough to turn their scrumping escapade into the mother and father of all sins. They and all their descendants were banished forever from the Garden of Eden, deprived of the gift of eternal life, and condemned to generations of painful labour, in the field and in childbirth respectively. — Richard Dawkins

Nothing clears out self-righteousness better than serving someone who is critical of you. — Paul E. Miller

I have never attempted to hide that I have had two husbands in my life.
I have, however, neglected to mention that in between them, I had a wife. — Marie Brennan

Day after day she asked Papa with quivering lip: "Mayn't I get up and go down stairs this morning?" And — Susan Coolidge

All too much of the wage structure has been based on the time workers put in, rather than upon the product put out. The consumer dollar has no interest in how much time it buys-only in the character and quality of the product itself. — Wheeler McMillen

September is my favourite month, particularly in Cornwall. I felt, even as a child, that if you get a wonderful day in September, you think: 'This could be one of the last, the summer is nearly over.' If you get a wonderful day in May, you think: 'So what, there's more coming.' — Tim Rice

Man in his raw, natural state as he comes from the womb is morally and spiritually corrupt in disposition and character. Every part of his being-his mind, his will, his emotions, his affections, his conscience, his body-has been affected by sin (this is what is meant by the doctrine of total depravity) — Robert L. Reymond

Men are lead by trifles. — Napoleon Bonaparte

If your repentance and God's forgiveness of your sin does not lead to total surrender to God, you should wonder if you truly repented. — Gail Davis

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature. — John Dryden

Video games are the comic books of our time ... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia. — Guillermo Del Toro

Unfortunately for critics and audiences alike, I have made several films, and some films with really terrific actors. And I say this at my own peril, but Marion Cotillard is the best actor I've ever worked with. — James Gray

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid. — Alain LeRoy Locke