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" I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another planet. "
Lewis Black
Think
Apple
Wonder
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" I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute. "
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Insane
More
" The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really? "
Lewis Black
Health
Fear
Belief
" My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty. "
Lewis Black
Teacher
Mother
Parents
" One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I'm still going to be rich. "
Lewis Black
Me
Know
You
" When I'm funny is when I'm angriest. "
Lewis Black
Funny
" Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?' "
Lewis Black
You
Democrats
Dumb
" All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. "
Lewis Black
Funny
Candy
Corn
" Democrats should be focused on which way we can help the most people in this country, and Republicans should be focused on how to do that in the most fiscally responsible manner possible. "
Lewis Black
People
Country
Help
" A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!' "
Lewis Black
Start
Father
People
" You're on Facebook, and these people seem to have endless lives. I don't have time to live my life, let alone tell you what I'm doing, or post a photo. "
Lewis Black
Life
Alone
My Life
" I love anything that gets me outside of my own head. "
Lewis Black
Me
Head
Love
" I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation. "
Lewis Black
Football
Vacation
Happy
" I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that. "
Lewis Black
Daily
Think
Golf
" Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done. And by the time you get it in, it's done and you're sitting there reading it, and you realize the 12,000 things you didn't do. I mean, writing isn't fun. It's never been fun. "
Lewis Black
Day
Writing
Reading
" It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity. "
Lewis Black
Now
Want
People
" My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform. "
Lewis Black
Problem
Uniform
People
" One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger. "
Lewis Black
Nothing
Interesting
Comedy
" I get an idea about something. I just start thinking about it, and then I get onstage and I talk about it, and then I think about it some more and talk about it some more, and think about it some more and talk about it some more, until it starts to take a shape. "
Lewis Black
Thinking
Talk
Start
" Harry Reid is not funny; he's creepy. Nancy Pelosi is creepy. Charles Schumer is sneaky and creepy. "
Lewis Black
He
Funny
Creepy
" It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God knows how long that'll last. You have to do it night after night after night to kind of make it. I still find myself on 'Piers Morgan' or on some show and I think, 'I hope this is funny.' "
Lewis Black
God
Funny
Good
" Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity. "
Lewis Black
Me
Obvious
Stupid
" I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. "
Lewis Black
Joke
Odd
Say
" You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work. "
Lewis Black
You
Work
Go
" The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable. "
Lewis Black
Find
Holiday
Right
" You can never put too much pork in your mouth as far as I'm concerned. "
Lewis Black
Too Much
You
Never
" My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road. "
Lewis Black
Been
Started
Road
" I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast. "
Lewis Black
Fast
Change
People
" I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of panic. "
Lewis Black
Right
Left
Think
" Macs are not intuitive. It's intuitive to the person who created it. It's not intuitive to me. "
Lewis Black
Who
Created
Me
" You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy. "
Lewis Black
Just
Focused
Got