W. L. George Quotes
Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'
What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was wrong with them.
The person who is most a part of me is the performer, is the standup, the guy who says, "Hey look at me, listen to this!" I do that because that's what I do, I love doing it.
I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio.
You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space.
Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach.
You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!
I was a stonehead for 30 years. I'd wake up in the morning and if I couldn't decide whether I wanted a joint or not, I'd smoke a joint to figure it out. And I stayed high all day long.
When I listen to those tapes now, the real cocaine shows; there's just nothing special about their content.
I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.
For an entertainer, part of the thing you do is just style. And the coke did help me get into great runs of pure form.
In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.
How old are you? 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.
O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.
To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups.
As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.
Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.
If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer. You see a lawyer. Isn't that weird?
Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.
It's difficult enough for a young person to put his soul on the line in front of a lot of drunken people without having that hanging over his head, too.
Have you noticed when you wear a hat for a long time it feels like it's not there anymore? And then when you take it off it feels like it's still there?
I was trying to get out of the night clubs and was thinking maybe I'll go to the colleges now; that's where you can speak your mind.
No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.
If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.
So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.
Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?
