Emmett Kelly quote: "I don't feel 'funny' inside when I'm this hobo character. I'm a misfit (as Weary Willie). Life is passing me by. Maybe it's Willie's attempt at a little dignity in spite of everything that tickles folks."

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can...
EMMETT KELLY

By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives...
EMMETT KELLY

I need to keep Willie alive.
EMMETT KELLY

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.
EMMETT KELLY

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette...
EMMETT KELLY

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The...
EMMETT KELLY

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can fee...
EMMETT KELLY

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafay...
EMMETT KELLY

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left ...
EMMETT KELLY

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that cha...
EMMETT KELLY

Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which ...
EMMETT SHEAR

Retirement: Statutory senility.
EMMETT O'DONNELL

That is too much to wish on anybody, but it's true that our dot-com yuppies think a depression is j...
EMMETT WATSON

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
EMMETT FOX

Life is a state of consciousness.
EMMETT FOX

A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether it's on laptops and handheld devices or i...
EMMETT SHEAR

They can have a parent die, a sibling, a friend, a grandparent.
KATHLEEN EMMETT

Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, it's a natural...
EMMETT SHEAR

One of the most troubling pieces of evidence (submitted by WRMA) was that 53.6 inches was at great o...
EMMETT BROWN

Is the debate over? This is our final decision on this challenge. But, if there is new, credible evi...
EMMETT BROWN

The all-tackle world record will not be overturned. In many ways, it's further validated.
EMMETT BROWN

The documentation was very well put together. It was comprehensive and left no doubt about what the ...
EMMETT BROWN

I suppose there is some people who won't let it rest. They are free to think along those lines, but ...
EMMETT BROWN

From day one, he's (Johnson) been emphasizing playing together. There's an upside to everything. I'm...
ANDRE EMMETT

It couldn't have come at a better time.
ANDRE EMMETT

It feels good to play, but it feels better to give the team a spark.
ANDRE EMMETT

Je sais que c'est difficile. La liberté l'est toujours. C'est l'esclavage qui est facile !
EMMETT GROGAN

The Twitch community loves watching video games, chatting, and broadcasting. The average viewer watc...
EMMETT SHEAR

Our app for Xbox 360 brings Twitch video to the television and into the living room of millions of X...
EMMETT SHEAR

Nobody wants the congestion to end more than the shippers.
ED EMMETT

The members of Congress who have been involved with this legislation deserve the gratitude of U.S. b...
ED EMMETT

If their (operations) numbers are looking better, it's only because they were so bad.
ED EMMETT

I think they will recover fairly quickly. Still, I think it will be shown on the bottom line of any ...
ED EMMETT

We handed them the game in the first four minutes of the second half.
EMMETT DAVIS

Our underclassmen are really making us a strong team.
EMMETT STATZER

On the boys side, we gave a good conscious effort.
EMMETT STATZER

What I really liked about Mary Washington was that it was a smaller school and a couple of my friend...
EMMETT RUTKOWSKI

Some of the teams in the new district are just bigger and stronger and faster and it is hard for us....
EMMETT RUTKOWSKI

It would be ideal to have all that at one location and also to have it near water ? whether that be ...
EMMETT KEYSER

I think the Cleghorn area has a lot of potential for things like fly-fishing classes along the creek...
EMMETT KEYSER

It's not easy to come up with a site like that.
EMMETT KEYSER

We also looked at that one today. I don't want to say it's totally out of the ball park, but it come...
EMMETT KEYSER

We've got a start on this, but we need to come up with a dedicated funding source to ensure that we'...
EMMETT HANGER

We've got more work to do there. In order to meet our targets for 2010, it's going to run us about $...
EMMETT HANGER

Disclosure is the key. And I think as long as we appropriately disclose, it works very well.
EMMETT HANGER

It's a matter of appropriate disclosing. The federal law is somewhat convoluted in their ways of get...
EMMETT HANGER

I think it works very effectively.
EMMETT HANGER

I thought it was a really intense, hard-fought game. Navy's seniors played with a lot of emotion, a ...
EMMETT DAVIS

We talked a lot at halftime about how the first five minutes of the second half were really importan...
EMMETT DAVIS

Our guard play was sub-par. [Junior] Jon Simon, [senior] Alvin Reed and [sophomore] Kyle Roemer had ...
EMMETT DAVIS

We got great play from Simon Knight and Marc Daniels, who both had their best games of the year.
EMMETT DAVIS

They are one of our most significant contributors. We just love them, and we are very grateful.
KATHLEEN EMMETT

We now see about 1,000 people per day. We are the fifth-largest hospice program in the United States...
KATHLEEN EMMETT

Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot...
EMMETT SHEAR

I'm always impressed by how compassionate the gaming community can be when they have a cause and...
EMMETT SHEAR

There's no bigger gaming franchise on the console than 'Call of Duty', and we can't ...
EMMETT SHEAR

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife...
R. EMMETT TYELL

I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten, Look-a-way! Look-a-way! L...
DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT

But if you want to drive 'way sorrow, Come and hear this song tomorrow, Look away! Look away! Look a...
DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT

Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistak...
EMMETT F. FIELDS

I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are...
R. KELLY

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
WALT KELLY

In like a dimwit, out like a light.
WALT KELLY

Every burden is a blessing.
WALT KELLY

Television can be a very fickle place.
MEGYN KELLY

There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New...
KELLY PRICE

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to v...
KELLY WEARSTLER

I think Miami is such a beautiful, sexy, gorgeous place. I love the people there.
MINKA KELLY

Everything happens for a reason. But I would love to still be at Clemson.
CHAD KELLY

Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.
KELLY ROWLAND

I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold ho...
KELLY WEARSTLER

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a...
PATSY KELLY

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing ...
PATSY KELLY

I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &...
R. KELLY

I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the...
R. KELLY

I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But...
R. KELLY

When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something...
R. KELLY

Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. KELLY

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY

You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz...
R. KELLY

I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because...
R. KELLY

In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,...
R. KELLY

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. KELLY

I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me...
R. KELLY

Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated....
R. KELLY

You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein...
R. KELLY

Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot...
R. KELLY

Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp...
R. KELLY

My greatest competition is, well, me.
R. KELLY

I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu...
R. KELLY

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou...
R. KELLY

I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l...
R. KELLY

I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
R. KELLY

Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to l...
SCOTT KELLY

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geom...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young...
KELLY JONES

I am a karmayogi-someone who becomes conscious of herself and the Divine through work, not through m...
KELLY CUTRONE

I do sing in the car. I actually sing Britney Spears songs in the car - me and a close friend of min...
KELLY ROWLAND

Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin...
MARK KELLY

You're really earning the support of New Hampshire voters, and you've got to do that one-on-...
KELLY AYOTTE

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
MOIRA KELLY

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our e...
SUE KELLY

Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a ...
SUE KELLY

Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no out...
SUE KELLY

I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm...
R. KELLY

There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. ...
KELLY SLATER

I remember trying to explain the class system to a Canadian friend when we started at RADA. The funn...
KATHERINE KELLY

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of...
KEVIN KELLY

I am a light person. I think of myself with a shield, a protective shield around me. And I think of ...
KELLY BROOK

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of ce...
KEVIN KELLY

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
KEVIN KELLY

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.
KELLY BROOK

We found Trent and pulled him off the leggy girl. “Trent, it’s time to get home before your pare...
AMANDA KELLY

This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year....
KELLY CUTRONE

Sometimes the fear of your soul's purpose is overridden by your heart's knowing that now is the time...
KELLY MARTIN

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly s...
KELLY CUTRONE

We have met the enemy and it is us.
WALT KELLY

I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't belie...
BARBARA KELLY

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction that if we don't do th...
PETRA KELLY

What America needs is more young people who will carry to their jobs the same enthusiasm for getting...
M.A. KELLY

We have met the enemy and he is us.
WALT KELLY

Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands a...
THOMAS KELLY

I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small...
SUE KELLY

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.
KELLY LYNCH

The calluses on your feet in space will eventually fall off. So, the bottoms of your feet become ver...
SCOTT KELLY

Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figu...
KELLY CUTRONE

Just because you might have a sparring match on the air doesn't mean there's any personal an...
MEGYN KELLY

The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.
KELLY PRESTON

Adjusting to space is easier than adjusting to Earth for me.
SCOTT KELLY

Why can't there be an acknowledgment that, in some instances, women remove themselves from the w...
MEGYN KELLY

Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want...
MOIRA KELLY

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which ...
MEGYN KELLY

I believe in exploration, and I will miss being on the front lines of that endeavor. On one hand, I ...
SCOTT KELLY

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy considera...
GENE KELLY

'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's...
R. KELLY

My style is understated because everything I wear, I want it to have an effortless feel to it. I alw...
TORI KELLY

So many people say you have to remember to grab hold of your bride or groom and spend time with them...
KATHERINE KELLY

When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I...
GAIL KELLY

It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every ...
KELLY MCCREARY

There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our ...
KELLY CLARKSON

I'm kind of a germ freak. When I get on a plane, I spray my seat and everything with Lysol Disin...
KELLY ROWLAND

I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how ...
MINKA KELLY

In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.
MEGYN KELLY

I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I lov...
KELLY WEARSTLER

Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not sta...
KELLY PRESTON

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to be...
WALT KELLY

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginnin...
ELLSWORTH KELLY

I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary; I...
KATHERINE KELLY

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I ...
KELLY MCGILLIS

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.
GRACE KELLY

You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are c...
KELLY RUTHERFORD

I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, ther...
MEGYN KELLY

I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when w...
KELLY CUTRONE

I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.
KELLY OSBOURNE

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
R. KELLY

We all have different things that we go through in our everyday life, and it's really important ...
KELLY ROWLAND

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn t...
KELLY BROOK

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.
KELLY CLARKSON

The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like th...
KELLY CLARKSON

Who are you wearing? Who are you wearing?
KELLY CLARKSON

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.
KELLY CLARKSON

I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs...
KELLY CLARKSON

I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don't care what anyone has to say about it...
KELLY CLARKSON

Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-sk...
KELLY CLARKSON

No matter what size I am I love performing no matter how big or little I am! I feel good.
KELLY CLARKSON

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't wan...
KELLY CLARKSON

I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really c...
KELLY CLARKSON

Everyone says I'm like the girl next door... Y'all must have really weird neighbors!
KELLY CLARKSON

I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never ...
KELLY CLARKSON

People keep asking me if I am having more fun, being blonde, but I always have fun! Whether I'm ...
KELLY CLARKSON

I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not tryin...
KELLY CLARKSON

I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don't like free weights, becaus...
KELLY CLARKSON

Honestly, I just think we all have special gifts, everyone. You know, obviously, some are more notic...
KELLY CLARKSON

The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My...
KELLY CLARKSON

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.
KELLY CLARKSON

I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.
KELLY CLARKSON

The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind ...
KELLY CLARKSON

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.
KELLY WEARSTLER

Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ...
KELLY MCGILLIS

Autumn is my favorite season.
JOHNNY KELLY

I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choi...
KELLY ROWLAND

I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-y...
MEGYN KELLY

I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exerci...
KELLY OSBOURNE

It’s okay to be crazy and scared and brave at the same time!
KELLY EPPERSON

'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually t...
TORI KELLY

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on th...
KELLY JONES

It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women'...
KELLY CORRIGAN

My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
KELLY RIPA

You're a dream. Like everything else.
KELLY CREAGH

I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.
KELLY PRESTON

Why do we even use hashtags? It's just like a sub-thought. Who clicks on hashtags? Nobody.
TORI KELLY

I think of events like the Challenger and 9/11 - events that move us so much that we never quite get...
KELLY MASTERSON

I would never shop from the Internet or a catalogue; otherwise, how am I going to educate my eye? I ...
KELLY WEARSTLER

Gospel was the root of everything in my house, so there's a touch of that in everything that I d...
TORI KELLY

The Smurfs - and they're this way in Peyo's comics as well - do have a rubbery indestructibi...
KELLY ASBURY

If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.
KELLY RIPA

Having been a cheerleader, I know all too well what these girls give up to join forces and compete.
KELLY RIPA

Cheesy lines like that will get you nowhere with me, but, by all means, keep them coming. You're so ...
KELLY ORAM

Is sex really that vital? Am I really not worth waiting for?
KELLY ORAM

I don't feel 'funny' inside when I'm this hobo character. I'm a misfit (as Weary Willie). Life is passing me by. Maybe it's Willie's attempt at a little dignity in spite of everything that tickles folks.

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I don't feel 'funny' inside when I'm this hobo character. I'm a misfit (as Weary Willie). Life is passing me by. Maybe it's Willie's attempt at a little dignity in spite of everything that tickles folks.

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