Sherwood Smith Quotes

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

Comedy is a reaction to the world, and I think it really helps to be an outsider. I've always been very interested in people's behavior, to the point of being obsessed - seeing what people needed and reading them, I think that's the backbone of comedy.

He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.

I stand behind what I say. If I don't want it to be out there then I won't say it. I am not out to hurt somebody. I am out to call attention to certain things but I am also out to make people laugh with my delivery and style of bluntness.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

I want to live in a world where people care about others, and try not to hurt others with words or actions.

The way I deliver it is meant to be fun. Does it hurt sometimes? Yes, but it is meant to be funny not offensive.

He's a wallflower." And Bob nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And i started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn't let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. "You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

I wouldn't hurt a flea. I'd finger a spider though.

I don't want to hurt people.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

I have a terrible problem with procrastination. A friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring.

It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.

People hurt each other. That's what people do.