Antics Quotes:

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

- Iggy Pop

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

topic: People, Shows, Antics

I won't get into the antics of what went on then.

- Tony Windsor

topic: Antics

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

- Edward Abbey

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

topic: Waiting, Vacuums, Antics

Such antics do not amount to a man.

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Sassy, Men, Antics

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

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Antics, Wanted

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

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

topic: Jesus, Years, Littles, Parables, Antics

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

source: "Niecy Nash, Living A Dream: To Be 'Black, Fabulous, And On TV'". "It's Been a Minute" with Sam Sanders, www.npr.org. June 19, 2018.

topic: Fun, People, Laughing, Make You Laugh, Cast Members

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

- Ama Ata Aidoo

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

topic: People, Bored, Worms, Antics

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

topic: Children, Mean, Journey, Antics

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

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Light, Mind, Stronger, Antics

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

topic: Government, Choices, Abortion, Personal Decisions, Intervention

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

topic: Laughter, Book, Reading, Spats, Wet Eyes

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

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

topic: Hate, Phones, Guy, Hating Yourself, Antics

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

topic: Basketball, Memories, Boys, Bleachers, Antics

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

- Clayton Snyder

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Trying, Lines, Stranger, Pickup Line, Antics

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

topic: Wall, Flower, Book, Methamphetamine, World Records

I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that I had written a book on reason and natural law, Stigler started to ridicule reason, going so far as to say that there is as much reason in a monkey's antics as in any human act. At that point I asked him whether he was trying to tell me something about how he wrote his books; he gave me a blank stare and stormed out of the room.

- Frank Van Dun

source: Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: The Darkest Powers Trilogy”, p.219, Penguin Group

topic: Book, Law, Trying, Blank Stares, Antics

Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.

- H. P. Lovecraft

source: Letter to "The Keicomolo" - Kleiner, Cole, and Moe (October 1916), in "Selected Letters I, 1911-1924" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 27), 1964.

topic: Life, Character, Men, Antics

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.

- Sean O'Casey

topic: Literature, Way, Fleas, Antics

Before I even knew what stand up was, I tried to make people laugh at school because that was how I made friends, so I think that's how I got drawn into comedy and obviously I was just some kid at school being silly, so the first time I saw a professional comedian and how smooth and funny the person was I totally got into standup and I would say obviously Richard Pryor was the guy. He's the greatest of all time and then George Carlin, Sam Kinison, Bill Cosby. It's so weird to bring up his name now but leaving out his off-stage antics... you could learn a lot from him.

- Bill Burr

source: Source: www.smudailycampus.com

topic: Silly, School, Kids, Making People Laugh, Antics

When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention; I was going to be a lawyer. Why? Because it was as far as I could get from my father's antics and world. I thought that the world of the arts probably led people into the kind of behavior I had seen with him and that had resulted in a lot of hard times for my mother and me.

- James Lipton

source: Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

topic: Antics

A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth. The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below; They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row. They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth; They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth.

- Nathalia Crane

source: Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

topic: Wall, Laughter, Angel, Worldly Things, Antics

There's a way of doing comedy that feels true to the person doing it, that doesn't feel like clown-work or silly faces and antics, but that feels real - like you're playing a real person who has real thoughts and feelings, and it's very grounded. I started to watch all comedy through that prism.

- Andy Daly

source: "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

topic: Real, Silly, Feelings, Antics

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2011). “Hamlet”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Acting, Actors, Hamlet Significant, Antics

In a fashion similar to the leftist occupiers on Wall Street, their antics would be the target of rabid moral indignation on the front pages of the New York times and Washington Post and on the lead stories of every cable news show.

- Jamie Glazov

topic: Fashion, New York, Wall, Moral Indignation, Cable News

My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

- Christopher Marlowe

topic: Dance, Men, Feet, Grazing, Satyrs

John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.

- Douglas Brinkley

topic: Kings, Drama, Hero, King Arthur, Theodore

As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in authorized ideas and wares; while at the same time it fosters, through its antics, the illusion of a free circulation of ideas and opinions - not unlike jesters in a tyrant's court.

- Robert Faurisson

topic: Media, Tyrants, Ideas, Circulation, Antics

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

topic: Ideas, Looks, Fae, Antics, Kidnapping

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

topic: Girl, Goodbye, Children, Good Thoughts, Antics

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

topic: Kings, Children, Interesting, Interesting Stories, Jester

I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

- Alice Munro

source: Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

topic: Romance, Attention, Notion, Despised, Antics

…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

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

topic: Lying, Thinking, Light, Corridors, Antics

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

topic: Males, Smirk, Ponies, Antics

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

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

topic: Procrastination, Too Much, Action, Antics

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.

topic: Growing Up, Silly, Moving, Wry, Arrested

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

topic: Media, Impact, Style, International Trade, Greenpeace

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

topic: Character, Zombie, World, Thoughtfulness, Tongue In Cheek

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

- Richelle Mead

topic: Hair, Want, Sometimes, Antics

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

topic: Zoos, Wall, Eye, Lilith, Racehorses

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

topic: Christian, Religious, People, Antics

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

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

topic: Plot, Stories, Ears, Antics

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

topic: Real, Vanity, Peaceful, Thinness, Shank

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

topic: Laughter, Differences, Public Opinion, Lofty, Antics

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

topic: Adventure, Games, Tears, Pinball, Antics

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

- Gillian Jacobs

topic: Guy, Used, Bros, Antics

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

topic: Heart, Order, Mind, Antics

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

topic: Rapper, Careers, Alcohol, Antics