Sick Quotes - Page 28

• In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

  Jemaine Clement

  Real, Keys, Acting

  "Jemaine Clement: 'I was in a public park replicating gay porn pics in my underpants'". Interview Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

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• I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.

  Billy Childish

  Art, Boring, Theory

  "Billy Childish Interview On Stuckism, Humor And Moustaches". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 08, 2013.

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• Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

  Ovid

  Art, Stronger, Physicians

  Pontic Epistles I.III.17

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• I'm sick of playing romantic leads.

  John Corbett

  Interview With Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 6, 2004.

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• 'Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it's very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It's way, way, way too short.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Fun, Party, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view.

  Steve Coogan

  Thinking, Views, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 20, 2008.

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• I'm always so sick of myself after a show.

  Marlene Dumas

  Shows, So Sick

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• I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

  Troy Duffy

  Tired, Thinking, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

  Bruce Davison

  People, Cocktails, Millions

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• Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly.

  Mark Dayton

  Years, Friendly, Benefits

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• I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

  Kate Flannery

  People, Distinction, Feels

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• I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Father, Unhappy Person, Long

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• Teens aren't just interested in getting laid. I won't believe that's all they're interested in. I have four younger sisters and they're sick of being shown how they're supposed to react in bed.

  Linda Fiorentino

  Believe, Bed, Teens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world.

  Paul Allen

  Years, Eight, World

  "Wired Interview: Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Talks Tech, Bill Gates, Chemo and Guitars". Interview with Sam Gustin, www.wired.com. April 18, 2011.

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• When I finish a film, I like to drastically change my appearance. I get sick of looking at the same thing in the mirror for months at a time. So when a film's over, I'll do something like shave my head.

  Ethan Embry

  Mirrors, Months, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Lame, Firsts

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

  James Taylor

  Wind, Alcohol, Drug

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• I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.

  Huey Lewis

  Feet, Car, Alcohol

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• Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

  Bob Dylan

  Peace, Forgiving, Special

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.

  Theodor Adorno

  Health, Opposites, Normal

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.60, Verso

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• Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Struggle, Self, People

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• I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.

  Jessica Chastain

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• Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

  Adam Hamilton

  Jesus, Vision, Needs

  "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Home, Nashville, Two

  "Garrett Hedlund: 'Life is fun when you're in motion'". Interview With Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.

  Tippi Hedren

  Cat, Animal, Leopards

  "Better Known For 'Birds,' Tippi Hedren Prefers Cats". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 24, 2010.

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