Stand Up Comedy Chris Rock Quotes & Sayings

Every day you teach attitude. — Don Meyer

Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away. — Jenny Diski

Matt's still watching my face closely, as if nerdy glasses are going to manifest on my face. — Emery Lord

Without passion, nobody can truly commit to anything and without optimism, positive outcomes become scarce. — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all? — Esther Perel

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know. — Desiderius Erasmus

It wouldn't kill you to flirt a little, so I don't remember this assignment as totally sucking. I'm babysitting a guy who thinks he's a leprechaun, and I'm rescuing a has-been horse. The least you could do I grab my ass once in a while. — Janet Evanovich

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something. — Chris Rock

When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that. — Avril Lavigne

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful. — Alton Brown

Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect. — Chris Rock

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours. — Lewis Carroll

I don't think my comedy is that political. It's more social. But whatever. When you make comedy and you do stand-up, you work alone. Movies have to go under so much scrutiny. A stand-up special is a vision, and a movie is a consensus in a lot of ways. — Chris Rock

[on John Cowper Powys] ... there is an indistinct photograph of the great man himself, gazing into the misty cleft of a mountain range, wearing what could be an old rug, or an old cardigan. He looks like a cross between an aged werewolf and a puzzled child. — Margaret Drabble

Perhaps the hardest lesson of all is that there is no such thing as 'getting it right'-least of all with the promulgation of quality. — Mary Walton

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually. — Rachel Kushner

King Arthur's story was pulled almost entirely out of Geoffrey of Monmouth's ass. There were about six hundred fifty years separating the events themselves and the first written account of them that survived to the modern day. Plenty of time to screw everything up and fabricate large portions of it. What — Kevin Hearne