Antics Quotes

• What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.

  Iggy Pop

  People, Shows

  "The Taming of the Stooge". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2012.

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• He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Years, Littles

  "Drama Team Handbook". Book by Alison Siewert, 2003.

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• Each cast member brings their own vibe and antics to the set. You're constantly surrounded by fun loving people who can make you laugh in their own way

  John Krasinski

  Fun, People, Laughing

  "Exclusive interview with the Stars of 'The Office'". Interview with Kath Skerry, www.givememyremote.com. January 17, 2006.

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• People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  People, Bored, Worms

  Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.96, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Journey, Mind, Enlightenment

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.21, New World Library

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• Such antics do not amount to a man.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Men, Amount

  William Shakespeare, Andrew Gurr (2005). “King Henry V”, p.128, Cambridge University Press

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• Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, Mind, Stronger

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.21, New World Library

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• This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

  Kathleen Turner

  Women, Government, Hygiene

  "CNN Sunday Morning" with Catherine Callaway, www.cnn.com. April 25, 2004.

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• So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Children, Mean, Journey

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.21, New World Library

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• Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date

  Mary Karr

  Laughter, Book, Reading

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• But what I can do is paint you a picture of what you’ll never see when you’re with a guy who’s really into you: You’ll never see you staring maniacally at your phone, willing it to ring. You’ll never see you ruining an evening with friends because you’re calling for your messages every fifteen seconds. You’ll never see you hating yourself for calling him when you know you shouldn’t have. What you will see is you being treated so well that no phone antics will be necessary. You’ll be too busy being adored.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hate, Phones, Guy

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

  Edward Abbey

  Waiting, Vacuums, Filled

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

  Talib Kweli

  Inspirational, Basketball, Memories

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• I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.

  Clayton Snyder

  Trying, Lines, Stranger

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.

  Clint Catalyst

  Wall, Flower, Book

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• The personal antics have overshadowed the music. I never wanted that but I knew what I was getting into when I got into everything I got into.

  Kid Rock

  Wanted

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union movement has achieved in almost a century.

  Naomi Klein

  Impact, Media, Style

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• Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Growing Up, Silly, Moving

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• …I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.

  William Faulkner

  Lying, Thinking, Light

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.

  Mark Kingwell

  Procrastination, Too Much, Action

  "Later" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• I am reminded of the old court jester who was supposed to entertain his king with interesting stories and antics. He looked at the king who was lolling on his throne, a drunken, filthy rascal, doffed his cap and bells, and said with a mock gesture of obeisance, “O king, be loyal to the royal within you.” And so I say to you young people today, remember your heritage, and be loyal to that royal lineage that you have as members of the church and kingdom of God on the earth.

  Harold B. Lee

  Kings, Children, Interesting

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• I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never to be reopened or reread. And I could say goodbye to them, wish them well, bless them somehow for their good thoughts. A handshake in the street, a dropped item picked up and retrieved and handed back, or a friendly wave from the distant window, a nod, a smile, a moment when the eyes lock over the antics of a child.

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Goodbye, Children

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• Some of the fae have an odd idea of bride send-offs," he explained "including, according to Zee, kidnapping." "I forgot about that." And I was appalled because I knew better. "Bran and Samuel are probably more of a danger than any of the fae," I told him. "Someday, I'll tell you about some of the more spectaculare wedding antics Samuel's told me about." Some of them made kidnapping look mild.

  Patricia Briggs

  Ideas, Looks, Fae

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• To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.

  Robert Kirkman

  Character, Zombie, World

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• These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

  Julie Burchill

  Males, Smirk, Ponies

  "Unvarnished versus airbrushed" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2008.

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