C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Come, Time, and teach me many years,
I do not suffer in dream;
For now so strange do these things seem,
Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.”
Source: In Memoriam
“Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.”
“Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.”
Source: Sherlock Holmes - The Short Stories (Book 2): The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Part 2), His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
“Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!”
Source: The odyssey
“Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.”
Source: Tempest
“Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.”
Source: The works of John Ruskin
“Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands asunder; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tidings, Yes, the Lord has risen to-day.”
“Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes.”
Source: Coming Through Slaughter
“Comeback is a good word, man.”
“Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.”
“Comedian makes the statement that just isn't true.”
“COMEDIAN: [...] What is it you do for a living?
HECKLER: I mind my own business.
COMEDIAN: Self-employed, eh? No really, what do you do?
HECKLER: I try not to "do.”
Source: Citations: A Brief Anthology
“Comedians a lot of times we're on the road, we're by our self. We come home to New York to our empty one-bedroom apartment, you know, and we need a place to go where you see a bunch of other miserable people sit around and eat a corned beef sandwich.”
“Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set 'Teachers Lounge' up.”
“Comedians and Feminists... are natural enemies, because stereotypically-speaking, feminists can't take a joke and... comedians can't take criticism.”
“Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.”
“Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.”
Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“Comedians and people in general have a cultural right to talk about their own culture and race.”
“Comedians are - at the end of the day, we're just a bunch of people that lack a little bit of - we're very insecure, and we want to be loved and liked by everybody. And you know, I could check my Twitter and there could be 150 people that say wonderful things. There'll be one person who says something negative. And all we focus on is that negative.”
“Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.”
Source: Groucho And Me
“Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.”
“Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.”
“Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.”
“Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.”
“comedians are people who say funny things, and comics are people who say things funny.”
“Comedians are really writers who don't
have pens and pencils about them, but
they riff.”
“Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.”
“Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.”
“Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.”
“Comedians are the most ruthless critics in the world.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Comedians are the nearest to suicide.”
Source: The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx
“Comedians are the one who have to tell the emperor he has no clothes on.”
“Comedians are therapists. People honestly think we're doing it for ourselves. No. If we wanted to do stand-up for ourselves, we would perform in front of a mirror and never go to a club. We are giving this away. Some people are going through so much in their lives, they want to hear something else that's going on in the world and laugh.”
“Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.”
“Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.”
“Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).”
“Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.”
“Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to just hit the backhand. You can't think about all the pieces of it. You can't think about your swing. You just have to do it. Reading someone else's deconstruction of what I do, all it does is put me in my head. On nights when the show goes particularly well, I am not aware of its fluidity. A lot of nights I'm just worried that I'm not going to be as good as the script in front of me.”
“Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.”
“Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.”
“Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.”
“Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.”
“Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.”
“Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.”
“Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.”
“Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited.”
“Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.”
“Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.”
“Comedians have varying levels of training. It can range from classically trained actors (like Robin Williams) to people who took comedy classes to folks who just started doing it. That's the beauty of comedy: it's close to a pure meritocracy.”
“Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.”