Amy Poehler Quotes - Page 5

I don’t really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don’t know what I would do without it.

You aren't allowed to feel special, but no one knows the specific ways you are in pain.

Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.

The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.

Always remember your kid's name.

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.

Sometimes you need to know to quit while you're ahead or at least before things get much worse!

Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged.

Sleep helps you win at life.

It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'

Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.

Nice manners are the secret keys to the universe.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said that New Orleans, when rebuilt, will be a chocolate city. And he will be the delicious nut in the center.

Ang Lee's been nominated for best director for "Life of Pi," which is what I'm going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

I find that, in general, the amount of sharing men do with each other in one year is about the same as what I share with my female friends while we wait for our cars at the valet.

Because of various security lapses, some senators are calling for a probe of the security at the offices of the Department of Homeland Security. The investigation will be conducted by the Department of Irony.

When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.

Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done.