Top 1200 Comic Relief Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.

We must effectively counter Moscow's attempts at influence with American strength and resolve, certainly not with a weak approach to President Putin or with any relief from sanctions.

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

I still feel it's kind of weird to say, 'I'm a comic book writer.'

Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.

Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you go back to the serious stuff.

I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Because of this ever increasing discernment of the true Mason he/she will find more efficient ways to apply brotherly love, relief and truth.

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

Pete Egoscue has totally changed my life. Never have I experienced such complete pain relief as I have by following the Egoscue Method.

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.

It's definitely tough seeing your city be devastated. People always give it the most attention when it's actually happening, but then they're not around for all of the relief and all of the rebuilding.

If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.

I have no problem in doing comedy, as I am happily consolidating my image of a comic actor.

I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and down Artist's Alley and saying "Hello" to people. I like hanging out on the DC booth. I can't do that anymore. I'd like to, but I can't. I physically can't. If I stop moving, somebody will come up to me with something to sign, and if I sign it, somehow it's like ants sensing sugar. There will be fifty or a hundred people around me and then fire marshals will come and then I'm trapped in a crowd. It's bizarre.

I like my leaders smart and serious. I don't need a stand-up comic.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

When you're a comic doing a special, it's like you're directing your first movie.

Introducing a social investment tax relief will make investment even more appealing and accessible.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment.

Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?

The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.

My mom set up relief programs in third world countries. We would do things like go to Bogota with her instead of summer camp.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief. Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring.

The biggest relief off my shoulders was when I retired from Test cricket and I knew I didn't have to bowl 40 overs in a Test anymore.

Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.

If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist.

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

The level of comic performance has certainly gone down over the years.

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

For me, the hardest thing was dropping the whole Latino comic title.

You would think that everyone would leap at the chance to get rid of sin. Not so. They want relief not a cure.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

It's good Mam, you've got a bike It's so much better than walking Dad just thinks it's a blessed relief It's the only time you stop talking

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

It's very difficult to set a film in one setting without giving the audience some intensity and some relief.

Amid all the horror films releasing in Tamil Nadu, 'Uyire Uyire,' with its focus on romance, will be a relief.

Yoga really helped with stress relief and just not hurting myself when I tour. It really was super helpful.

On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.

I call myself a comic.But I started as an actress. I did plays since I was 5.

Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.

When you're weary, find relief. When you're strong, find delight.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.