Dave Gorman Quotations

What this Australian guy meant when he said I was a Googlewhack,

If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and it actually happened, the big message is, `Isn't the world funny?' And actually I think that's a better message. I kind of want to think that about the world -- and it sounds less like boasting.

The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

The activity of both sets of muscles, the diaphragm and the abdominal muscles, varies reciprocally. Thus, during inspiration the tonus of the diaphragm increases while that of the abdominal muscles decreases, and vice-versa during expiration. Hence there exists between these two muscle groups a floating equilibrium constantly shifting in both directions.

Those roads provided breath-taking views. There's something special about an empty road going on and on and on to the horizon where the sun burns the world away into a dancing, shmmering heat haze that reflects the crystal blue sky, literally blurring the line between heaven and earth.

I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair.

I'd hate to compare anyone with Sugar Ray Robinson, but Donald is the closest thing to Robinson I've ever seen

Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.

The Internet contains everything in the whole wide world ever. I don’t know about you, but I find everything in the whole wide world ever to be a bit distracting.

My first thought was, 'I think I'm being insulted,'

I don't know about you, but the first thing I do when I'm supposed to write something, ... is to do everything else. If my house is tidy, it generally means I should be writing--and I'm not. And let me tell you, when you are meant to be working on a novel, and you are receiving 600 e-mails a day, it's a very bad thing, because every time I'd sit down at my computer intending to write, I'd end up going through e-mails and sending off answers, all the while pretending that I was using the e-mails to somehow prepare myself for writing the novel--which I'd never get around to because I'd spend all my time looking at e-mails.

Whatever they call me, I know I'm a very fortunate man.

Later on, after I'd met this gentleman with the interesting site, ... he found a Googlewhack of his own. I ended up going to meet that person, and that person found a Googlewhack, so I went and met that person and that person found a Googlewhack, so I kept going and going.

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Why are they doing this review if not to cut benefits? ... Remember these were claims that were allowed at the time. They are also not going back to review claims that they denied and should not have been. . . . I think this is going to make VA decision-makers tighter with their grants for disability payments.

Every time I told them a true bit, it got a bigger reaction than any of the jokes I had written,

It's a really complicated lesson; it's counterintuitive for a comedian. I basically started taking the jokes out, and the show got funnier.