#si

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#combine #each #fact #i #person

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#afghanistan #alone #because #empires #feel

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#feel #get #had #i #i feel

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#death #i #i think #lot #morbid

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#i #i love #i see #itself #like

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#cake #chelsea #eat #funny #griffin

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#each #ending #get #i #individual

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#make #many #mistake #more #people

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#bad #either #finished #funny #good

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#easy #music #never #success