Sketchwriters Quotes & Sayings

How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money. — Irving Fisher

Jim Sheridan, the MP who wants to ban sketchwriters from the Commons for being rude about politicians, is a blithering idiot. Sorry, scrub that - clearly a very thoughtful person with whom I might conceivably disagree on some marginal issues. A blithering savant, perhaps. — Simon Hoggart

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect. — David Steinberg

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them. — Matthew Specktor

If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk. — Larry Walters

I work a lot with men, and I work with wonderful men that I absolutely adore, but it's something that I'm now paying attention to - to seek out and make room for the talented women in all the technical fields and creative fields across the board. — Sara Bareilles

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved. — Stanley Fish

Love your friends and be just to your enemies. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I urge people to get in touch with how you really feel, and don't lie to yourself. Absolutely don't. You may not necessarily be able to change something right now, but you need to know how you really feel. — Deborah King

For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in my brain. Which I guess is a great advantage. — Kelly Blatz

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara) — Salman Rushdie