When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.
Any degree of success or achievement for me is only ever a relief. My version of getting carried away is: 'Mmm, that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.'
Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.
For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do with seriousness. The comic can be very serious. The trouble with the earnest is that it seeks to be commended. It ...
The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than people think. And that language is a trap, that a dark evolutionary force has created languages to limit hu...
A healthy agency does not require relevance to the national agenda so much as the APPEARANCE of relevance to the national agenda," Humphrey explained. "It is perhaps the second-most important tool in ensuring continued funding." "And the most importa...
I love comics work, and I hope I never stop doing it. But at the same time, I have my own law practice that I've built up over quite a while - it's been more than a decade that I've spent building that business - so it seems a little premature to jus...
To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite wrestler has the one move that he always does to finish his opponent off, right? Like when he climbs on the rope, and he always jumps off the top rope ...
The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.
I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually.
Comic-Con is a special kind of crazy.
I never wanted to be road comic.
I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.
Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.
