A Quote by George Carlin

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

George Carlin

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Acceptable Aggression Comedy Comics Down Form Hostility Socially Stand Upside Upside Down World World Upside Down

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George Carlin
American - Comedian
May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

E. L. Doctorow

Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

Laura Furman

Everything here at St. Aggie's is upside down and inside out. It's our job not to get moon blinked and to stand right side up in an upside down world. If we don't do that we'll never be able to escape. We'll never be able to think. And thinking is the only way we'll be able to plan an escape." -Gylfie

Kathryn Lasky

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

Paulo Coelho

I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being an actor. We give Oscars to people and it's like, 'Aw, this person is the greatest person on earth', but being an actor is pretty easy in comparison to stand-up comedy. It's no surprise that several stand-up comics have gone on to become great actors. I don't know any great actors that have gone on to become great stand-up comics.

Jim Jefferies

Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

Candy Lightner

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Richard Carlson

Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.

Amy Adams

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.

Spider Robinson

I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else.

Lewis Black

Falling in love is a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

Amy Adams

Come on, you can't do a film about an upside-down world and not have an upside-down kiss!

Jim Sturgess

If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?

Eduardo Galeano

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Sydney J. Harris

Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.

Deepak Chopra

The world has flipped upside-down. It used to be a pyramid of authority; now it's upside down. The influence actually rests with the mid-level people, who speak peer-to-peer. If they're for you, you win.

Richard Edelman

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