Situation Quotes
There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you're pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.
In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr... Poopy Pants?
God's mercy is boundless, free and, through Jesus Christ our Lord, available to us now in our present situation.
I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been thinking about or if I'm mad at a guy, it comes out.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.
Is our situation not dismal? Wonderland is so discombobulated that lady bugs have turned belligerent and enlisted in the queen's army! Punish their conversion!
I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.
We believe that war is an inevitable consequence of the current global economic situation.
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
It's really quite a situation. It's ridiculous. I make $200,000, $300,000 a night. For years I was working little dives, and if I got $700 a week, I'd say, "Wow, I'm really cooking.
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
I believe people are genuinely good. I don’t like to see the bad in people, so because of that, I could see myself falling into a bad situation. But thankfully, I haven’t yet.
It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.
There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
In every job, relationship, or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are.
As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.
If America puts the enmity aside, if it initiates good will, and if it compensates for the past, the future situation between the United States and Iran will change.
Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.
When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it.
Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.
Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.
Right now, huge numbers of people cannot obtain even drinking water, and the situation is likely to become worse with predicted climate change and failure to take the actions that are necessary.
In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.
Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.
The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.
Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.
Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.
I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?
I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation.