"If all the world is a stage,..." - Quote by George Carlin
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
More by George Carlin
“More people write poetry than read it.”
“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 the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.”
More on Philosophy
“There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.”
“One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.”
“To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.”
More on Humor
“People always tell me "Have a nice day." Well what if I don't want to? What if I want to have a crappy day?”
“A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.”
“When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things.”