Tipstaffs Quotes & Sayings

You know, I've done this show for six years, and this could be the first time that I had a person that actually got no points, and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. I thought I was a loser until you walked up here; you made me feel like a man. — Ray Combs

The smell of freedom. But perhaps it was true what his mother, the teacher, had said. That the human brain can reproduce detailed images of everything you have seen or heard, but not even the most basic smell. Smell. The images — Anonymous

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies. — Nadine Velazquez

If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take his work unto itself. But if his own conceptions are limited and narrow in their human meaning it seems likely that time will erase his work. — Ben Shahn

I feel I am very fortunate to have a job that I really like. — Yani Tseng

something about the phrase - something about
how i have to be unlike the women
i call sisters in order to be wanted
makes me want to spit your tongue out — Rupi Kaur

Forsaking all others means going deep with one person -- exhaustingly deep. — Ada Calhoun

In software, consultants sometimes tell you to buy into certain software-development methods to the exclusion of other methods. That's unfortunate because if you buy into any single methodology 100 percent, you'll see the whole world in terms of that methodology. In some instances, you'll miss opportunities to use other methods better suited to your current problem. — Steve McConnell

Don't think about Laika in orbit. Don't think about cringe and catastrophe. — Ada Limon

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write. — Tom Araya

There is a saying, "Think globally, act locally." When negotiating, "Think personally, act communally." I have advised many women to preface negotiations by explaining that they know that women often get paid less than men so they are going to negotiate rather than accept the original offer. By doing so, women position themselves as connected to a group and not just out for themselves; in effect, they are negotiating for all women. And as silly as it sounds, pronouns matter. Whenever possible, women should substitute "we" for "I." A woman's request will be better received if she asserts, "We had a great year," as opposed to "I had a great year."20 But — Sheryl Sandberg

It's about good copy and ensuring that cases can be made into top-notch documentaries on the telly. Public approval is the all-important currency these days, and police budgets ebb and flow on the back of circulation and viewing figures. — Jasper Fforde

I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do. — Zach Galifianakis