11 Quotes Tagged: comic

If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

And in a way, you could say that my father's end was my beginning...Or more precisely, that the end of his lie coincided with the beginning of my truth

He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.

When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
[as quoted by Alfred E Neuman]

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move.

His life was now the life of a collector, and that gave it meaning. Evening after evening he would count and arrange his cuttings under the indulgent eyes of Mrs. Povondra who knew that every man is partly mad and partly a little child; it was better for him to play with his cuttings than to go out drinking and playing cards. She even made some space in the scullery for all the boxes he had made himself for his collection; could anything more be asked of a wife?

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but a comic is worth a million.

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!