#come

I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it. ↗

— Dane Cook

#because #comedy #i #i can #i do

Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along. ↗

— Tim Conway

#around #asked #benefits #charity #come

I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team. ↗

— Tim Conway

#being #burnett #close #comedy #could

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously. ↗

— John Conyers

#far #far right #fringe #hard #ideas

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#been #between #comedy #discomfort #drawn

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#butchers #fear #irrational #life #policemen

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#before #child #consequence #fear #fears

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#becomes #books #clearer #consequence #function

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#conscious #detached #feelings #impossible #informed

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#changes #come #conscience #demands #form