CJ Quinn Quotes

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.

I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write

Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves.

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.

That’s the beauty of being a comedian: it’s the one job you’re allowed to do that. We’re lucky. We’re really lucky.

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them.

Everybody's funny in different ways.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

My name has zero value.

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we who are in danger.

Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!

The world was not made for any one species.

With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?

You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.

Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.

We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.

May the forests be with you and with your children.

Courage is the virtue of the free.

No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.

Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth.

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.

Wow, just imagine missing school on the day when they were learning blue. You'd spend the rest of your life wondering what color the sky is.

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

You get the most out of what you need the least.

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.

Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town.

Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.

Everyone said, 'You can't lose money in real estate, because they're not making any more of it.' Hmmmm. Where did everyone go wrong?

Equality is never given, it is taken.

No one knows what stocks will do tomorrow, but the evidence is clear as to how they'll perform over 10 or 20 years. They will almost certainly go up.

You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.

Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.

It's a fact: stock investors sometimes lose money on their way to wealth. Get over it.

He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent." "I keep telling everyone that," she said with a nonchalant shrug, "but you seem to be the only one to believe me.

Besides," he said breezily, "were it not for misunderstandings, we would be sadly lacking in great literature." She looked at him questioningly. "Where would Romeo and Juliet be?" "Alive.

And for the rest of the night, he couldn’t quite forget the smell of her perfume. Or maybe it was the soft sound of her chuckle. Or maybe it was neither of those things. Maybe it was just her.