"Why do we say something is out..." - Quote by George Carlin
Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
More by George Carlin
“I have things that are strident and confrontational, and I have a lot of things that are childlike and innocent and sort of sweet. So, somewhere in between lies the middle of me.”
“We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.”
“No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.”
More on Language
“Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.”
“Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know”
“truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.”
More on Humor
“Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.”
“It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.”
“Aside from Velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe.”