George Carlin Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by George Carlin
George Carlin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out.
Like on the airlines, they say they want to 'pre-board'. Well, what the hell is 'pre board'? What does that mean? To get on before you get on?
To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from.
You know what I do? I steal things. Fuck 'em! I grab a handful of candy bars and six magazines and head for the gate.
My father? My father left when I was quite young. Well actually, he was asked to leave. He had trouble metabolizing alcohol.
Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back.
For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.
Broadway isn't a very big career move. There's no money in it and it doesn't mean anything to your career. It's just a nice little jewel in the crown.
I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?
If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff?
Sometimes guys'll say to you, 'Have a good one'. I say, 'I already have a good one. Now I'm looking for a longer one'.
Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes.
These are the kinds of thoughts that made it necessary to separate me from the other kids at school.
If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
I kind of like it when a lot of people die, and on the other hand I always wonder how many unused frequent-flier miles they had.
Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.
Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of
government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.
government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.
In some company it's perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Barry Goldwater has definitely decided to be a candidate in '64. He will campaign in all thirteen states.
I was trying to get out of the night clubs and was thinking maybe I'll go to the colleges now; that's where you can speak your mind.
We [americans] are not a freedom-loving people in the beautiful, spiritual sense. We have an inspiring Constitution, but we're a hardhearted people.
Unbelievably, a goldfish can kill a gorilla. However, it does require a substantial element of surprise.
I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded.
Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right.
A crumb is a great thing: If you break a crumb in half, you don't get two half-crumbs, you get two crumbs. Doesn't that violate some law of physics?