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"There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl." »Joan Rivers
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"The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, You would never see a bad show." »Buddy Hackett
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"God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Where did they put pictures, comic strips, and coupons before they invented the refrigerator door?" »Jerry Scott, Baby Blues: Ten Years and Still in Diapers
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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning." »Winston Churchill
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"... everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence." »George Santayana
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"Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem." »Harvey Mindess
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"The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me." »Loren
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"strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath." »Oscar Levant
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"Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh." »Katharine Hepburn
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"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught." »Georgia O'Keeffe
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"Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it." »Charles Krauthammer
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"Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show." »Buddy Hackett
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"It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all." »Miguel de Cervantes
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