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Comic Quotes - page 12

I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate. (Cyrano de Bergerac)
Zeno is one of the comic masterpieces of the century; as Svevo had previously used Flaubert more intelligently than any Italian before him, here he uses Freud in a way that no Italian has done since. View quote
Italo Svevo
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
...whereas the vices of Messalina were in themselves venial, being mostly a passion for sensual gratification which subordinated all things to its encompassing, Agrippina lived solely for power, frightening enough in a man but terrifying in a woman....she would sleep with anyone, though not for physical pleasure, only for political advantage. She was cursed or blessed with a certain sexual coldness, knowing as much as a temple prostitute about the arousing of male passion and the procurement of its ecstatic release but keeping herself aloof, despite an occasional simulation of desire and the odd false orgiastic shudder and scream of fulfilment, from a process she found distressingly bestial when it was not frankly comic. View quote
Anthony Burgess
The British...used to regard foreigners as either a comic turn or a sexual menace. To learn a European language...was, at best, to seek to acquire a sort of girls'-finishing-school ornament, at worst, to capitulate feebly to the enemy. View quote
Anthony Burgess
The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good. View quote
Guillermo del Toro
Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. View quote
Paul Scofield
Dramatists have always made fun of the friendship between a husband and his wife's lover. But is it so comic? These two men undoubtedly have more to say to one another than the lover and his mistress. They get on perfectly well, and it is often the husband's presence that makes endurable the intolerable boredom of certain affairs of this sort. Cases have been known where a break occurred almost immediately following the husband's withdrawal from the scene. View quote
André Maurois
You can argue truly enough, for example, that general respect for the prohibition on murder makes life more commodious. If people really respect the prohibition against murder life is pleasanter for all of us - but this argument is exceedingly comic. Because utility presupposes the life of those who are to be convenienced, and everybody perceives quite clearly that the wrong done in murder is done first and foremost to the victim, whose life is not inconvenienced, it just isn't there any more. He isn't there to complain; so the utilitarian argument has to be on behalf of the rest of us. Therefore, though true, it is highly comic and is not the foundation: the objection to murder is supra-utilitarian. View quote
G. E. M. Anscombe
There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset. View quote
Gloria Steinem
Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.) (Elizabeth Gilbert)
I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes. View quote
Sandra Bernhard
My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe. View quote
Emo Philips
I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
Gay and straight men have much more in common than do gay men with lesbians or straight men with straight women. Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. This is the agonizing myth-pattern in the comic, matricidal Psycho (1960), one of the hauntingly emblematic films of our time. View quote
Camille Paglia
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money. View quote
Alejandro Jodorowsky
I remember hearing about an old comic strip back in the days of St. Ed's. Two guys are talking to each other, and one of them says he has a question for God. He wants to ask why God allows all of this poverty and war and suffering to exist in the world. And his friend says, "Well, why don't you ask?" The fellow shakes his head and says he's scared. When his friend asks why, he mutters, "I'm scared God will ask me the same question." View quote
Shane Claiborne
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. View quote
Dean Koontz
There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask. View quote
Edith Wharton
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations. View quote
Ralph Fiennes
It's exhausting, because there's a greater pressure to be funny if you turn up somewhere as your comic character. (Sacha Baron Cohen)
I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret. View quote
Bob Monkhouse
You used your power to toss one rock at me?" he exclaimed, an almost comic note of incredulity in his voice. "On the contrary," I heard Dorian say pleasantly. "I didn't use magic for that. I just threw it. View quote
Richelle Mead
I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech. View quote
Jeff Dunham
I am not a comic, I have never told a joke...The comedian's promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him...My only promise is that I will try to entertain you as best I can....They say, 'Oh wow, Andy Kaufman, he's a really funny guy.' But I'm not trying to be funny. I just want to play with their heads." View quote
Andy Kaufman