Quotes Tagged "scene"

Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world? It’s not the greatest country in the world. That’s my answer… [turns to a panelist] Sharon, the NEA is a loser. Yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paycheck, but he gets to hit you with it anytime he wants. It doesn’t cost money, it costs votes. It costs airtime and column inches. You know why people don’t like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so fucking smart, how come they lose so goddamn always? [turns to another panelist] And with a straight face, you’re gonna tell students that America is so star-spangled awesome that we’re the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom. Japan has freedom. The UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom! So, 207 sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom. [turns to the student who asked the question] And yeah, you… sorority girl. Just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there’s some things you should know. One of them is: there’s absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we’re the greatest country in the world. We’re 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in median household income, number 4 in labor force and number 4 in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now, none of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you, nonetheless, are, without a doubt, a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about! Yosemite?! [Silence] It sure used to be… We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reason. We passed laws, struck down laws, for moral reason. We waged wars on poverty, not on poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were and we never beat our chest. We built great, big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases and we cultivated the world’s greatest artists AND the world’s greatest economy. We reached for the stars, acted like men. We aspired to intelligence, we didn’t belittle it. It didn’t make us feel inferior. We didn’t identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election and we didn’t scare so easy. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed… by great men, men who were revered. First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.

Life! It always has something puzzling to say and something new to show. It happens when it's least expected, such a turn, such a scene!

I will dive into my chaos, and my Abyss will turn it into an art scene.

What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there.

I wrote a big animation scene for 'Iron Fists,' but we couldn't afford all that.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

I started out in the ballroom scene when I was fourteen years old.

There's a lot of hope and comfort and nurturing in the ballroom scene.

In Bangkok's budding literary scene, Prabda Yoon sits at the centre.

The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.

When we did 'Boomerang,' which is one of my favorite scenes, the whole dinner scene was ad-libbed.

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

St. Louis has a great startup scene and a vibrant business community.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

The club scene is terrible.

I can't stand the club scene.

By the time I started doing stand-up, the club scene had died.

Catching a culprit becomes really easy when there are video footages from the crime scene.

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.