All Quotes

Improv is mostly what I've studied.
‐‐ Ellie Kemper

Improv kind of goes hand in hand with what I do. I was on 'Reno 911!' for six years, and that was a completely improvised show.
‐‐ Nick Swardson

Improv plays such a huge role in finding great lines - you'll be surprised at what comes out of your mind inadvertently. A lot of times it's better than a script you've worked out ahead of time.
‐‐ Nick Swardson

Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
‐‐ J. B. Smoove

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.
‐‐ Jen Kirkman

Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.
‐‐ Joe Flaherty

Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would like to continue to improve upon.
‐‐ Allison Tolman

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
‐‐ Peter Lynch

Improvement begins with I.
‐‐ Arnold H. Glasow

Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people.
‐‐ Richard Attias

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.
‐‐ Blanche Lincoln

Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
‐‐ Jack Reed

Improving small business opportunities through federal contracts creates jobs and saves taxpayer money.
‐‐ Sam Graves

Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.
‐‐ Michael Bennet

Improving the Internet is just one means, albeit an important one, by which to improve the human condition. It must be done with an appreciation for the civil and human rights that deserve protection - without pretending that access itself is such a right.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.
‐‐ James P. Hoffa

Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering the things that they aren't saying. It's a way to explore scenes. Sometimes it's more useful than others, but it's always there to see if there's anything that you might improve.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

Improvisation is a compositional method.
‐‐ Evan Parker

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.
‐‐ Amy Poehler

Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.
‐‐ Bernard Sahlins

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
‐‐ Paul Simon

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
‐‐ Fred Frith

Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

Improvising political dialogue is not easy.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.
‐‐ Ikue Mori

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
‐‐ Euripides

Impulses are hard to come by these days.
‐‐ Jack Levine

In '05, '06, '07 and '08, I wasn't throwing any changeups at all. Maybe two or three per game. In '09, I started playing with the grip, started throwing it in the bullpen and playing catch. It came out really good.
‐‐ Felix Hernandez

In 10 different takes, you can do a scene 10 different ways.
‐‐ Scott Patterson

In 10 years, I'd love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs... and it'd be great to share them with someone else.
‐‐ Luke Evans

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
‐‐ Kat Graham

In 100 billion years, the universe will be a very strange place.
‐‐ John C. Mather

In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today.
‐‐ Robyn Davidson

In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.
‐‐ Burt Rutan

In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
‐‐ Karen Maitland

In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.
‐‐ Eduardo Galeano

In 15 years, we've raised $225 million, sequenced the myeloma genome, and opened 45 trials of 23 drugs - six approved by the FDA - which have doubled the life span of multiple myeloma patients. I've taken both Velcade and Revlimid, which we helped develop.
‐‐ Kathy Giusti

In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

In 16, 17 years as a pro I was used to the head coach doing it alone. He might have asked his people for advice, but he made the decisions on his own. In order to learn quickly I couldn't do that.
‐‐ Jurgen Klinsmann

In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo.
‐‐ Simon McBurney

In 1600, when Shakespeare's audience at the Globe heard 'Hamlet' for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.
‐‐ Neil MacGregor

In 1628 came the first English attack on Canada.
‐‐ Harry Johnston

In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse on London's seafront popular among underwriters, men in powdered wigs with mathematical minds and steely constitutions who offered to compensate owners if their boats were lost at sea.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

In 1736, Bakhchisaray had been burned to the ground by the Russians, and when Catherine II's army completed the conquest of the peninsula in 1783, the last khan, Sahin Giray, took refuge in Turkey, where he was eventually executed.
‐‐ Tim Cope

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.
‐‐ Albert Bushnell Hart