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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Whereas Angeline's antics made me want to pull out my hair sometimes, Trey found them endearing.

  Richelle Mead

  Hair, Want, Sometimes

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• Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.

  Anais Nin

  Zoos, Wall, Eye

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• For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Laughter, Differences, Public Opinion

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• An Associated Press report called the President's antics 'Bible-thumping politics.' Clinton's message was decidedly religious and partisan, as was Governor's Cuomo's remarks as he 'also cited religious themes and maxims.' Why didn't the press, the ACLU, and People for the American Way cry foul?

  Gary DeMar

  Christian, Religious, People

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• Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game, but it's well worth the wear and tear.

  Charlaine Harris

  Adventure, Games, Tears

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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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• A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Guy, Used, Bros

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• Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.

  George Croly

  Heart, Order, Mind

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• Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning, not from vanity always, but frequently because it is all he has got; no real sense, no wisdom of his own, merely much good stuff he has learned from other sources. He spreads it like a garment as any other decent person would to hide the thinness of his shanks.

  Corra May Harris

  Real, Vanity, Peaceful

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• Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.

  Anne Enright

  Plot, Stories, Ears

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• My love of words, alcohol, and stage antics basically cemented me as a rapper, but it wasn't a career that I wanted to do. It was just, "I like to do all these things at one time."

  Cakes da killa

  Rapper, Careers, Alcohol

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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