“There's really no way to duplicate how someone gets from the beginning to the end of an idea.” Quote by Michael Patrick Walker
“When you write a show, you just never know if it will have a future or if the show will end up ever having a production, but, that doesn't mean that the songs - the best of the best songs - can't be pulled out and put on a CD. And, if the shows that they come from end up happening, then people will regard this as like a quirky little concept recording. And, if the shows don't end up happening, at least the songs will live on in some capacity.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingMeanLittlesEndsShowsSongHappeningsConceptsCapacityRegardProductionsCdsQuirkyBest Of The Best Author:Michael Patrick Walker
“There is nothing better than getting something in front of an audience in a less stressful setting than previews!” AudienceFrontsSettingSettingsStressfulPreview Author:Michael Patrick Walker
“I think it's good to know more than the average guy. If I'm in a bar now and some pretty girl is talking to some handsome 24-year-old man, I'll say, "Okay, who's the emperor after Caligula? What chief mistake did Marcus Aurelius make in choosing a successor?" He'll just look like an idiot. She'll just gravitate toward me, I'm thinking. It works in Detroit.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenYearsLooksGuyGirlMistakeTalkingOkayAverageBarsChiefsIdiotOld ManHandsomeEmperorDetroitPretty GirlSuccessors Author:Emo Philips
“You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.” ShouldChildrenRealizingWifeFameMarriedFortunePrizeConsolationHappy ChildrenConsolation PrizeLoving Wife Author:Emo Philips
“The subconscious is like having a laboratory assistant who pretends to love you and help you, but after you go home to go to sleep it goes back into the lab and starts fumbling with the data and destroying it. It's a very tricky thing. People think our minds are us, but that's not true at all. The mind is not us.” PeopleThinkingMindHelpingHomeSleepLove YouDataDestroyingSubconsciousLaboratoryTrickyGoing To SleepAssistantsLabs Author:Emo Philips
“If an asteroid is coming toward you, you don't have to blow it up. You just have to slow it down long enough for our country to rotate out of the way.” IfsWayLongCountryEnoughBlowOur CountryAsteroids Author:Emo Philips
“I've been at stand-up 26 years now: After a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.” YearsEnjoyPatientJadedProverbialGynecologists Author:Emo Philips
“I've always kind of pushed the envelope in terms of trying to get away with things no one else was going near. I always thought of myself like a mouse trying to get cheese that no one else could get without getting their tail snipped off.” TryingKindTermGet AwayCheeseTailsMiceEnvelopes Author:Emo Philips
“Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones.” RealEmotionalAffairReal Ones Author:Chris Rock
“Sometimes if you don't physically attempt something, you don't realize how sick to your stomach or how hard it is.” IfsSometimesHardRealizingSickStomach Author:Laila Ali