George Carlin - Best Quotes - Top Quthors

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own so both of them together is certain death.

Communication

By and large language is a tool for concealing the truth.

George Carlin

By and large language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Loneliness

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.

George Carlin

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.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Author: George Carlin

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

Well if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us do they?

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

At a formal dinner party the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own so both of them together is certain death.

By and large language is a tool for concealing the truth.

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.