#like

But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it. ↗

— Jay Mohr

#comedian #i #kind #like #off

I wasn't the guy everyone liked. I was the guy that wouldn't shut up. ↗

— Jay Mohr

#guy #i #liked #shut #shut up

I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball. ↗

— Jay Mohr

#back #baseball #designated #enough #everyone

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. ↗

— Moliere

#close friends #few #first #friends #like

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. ↗

— Henry Miller

#critic #done #drop #fruits #general

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. ↗

— Henry Miller

#does #good #gratuitous #letter #like

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#genius #industry #life #like

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#august #day #days #dreams #ending

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#democracy #dictator #elected #even #him

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#community #eventually #feel #i #isolated