Hari Kondabolu Quotes

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.

Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.

The unspoken word never does harm.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

I love to read aloud.

I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head.

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

I think television defeats ventriloquism.

I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

The more you work in this business as a comedian, the closer you get to just being yourself onstage, on camera, the more well received you are.

People do stupid things... words are important.

Words are powerful. The tongue is powerful. And when you write it down, and record it, and press it up, it's 100 million times more powerful. It's important to utilize our tongue to help people.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I've always talked a lot on stage - I really wanted to communicate my ideas and when you're playing at a lot of shitty punk clubs they don't have good PAs and so no one knows what you're singing about.