“Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.”
― Bossypants
― Bossypants
“The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. "Fear," he used to say, "fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe." That blew me away. "Turn on the TV," he'd say. "What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products." Fuckin' A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“On Being Afraid to Use the Elementary School Bathrooms to Defecate
“Son, you're complaining to the wrong man. I can shit anywhere, at any time. It's one of my finer qualities. Some might say my finest.”
― Sh*t My Dad Says
“Son, you're complaining to the wrong man. I can shit anywhere, at any time. It's one of my finer qualities. Some might say my finest.”
― Sh*t My Dad Says
“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”
― Bossypants
― Bossypants
“Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?”
― Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
― Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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