Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

- Dario Fo

You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

- Rufus Wainwright

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

- Norm Coleman

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

- Henry James Sumner Maine

Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed.

- Henry Rollins

It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

- Ennio Morricone

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

- Erwin Schrodinger

I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity.

- Darren Star

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.

- Darren Boyd

It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.

- Dasha Zhukova

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

- Albert Einstein

We live in a dangerous world, and Russia has not complied with existing treaties.

- Chuck Fleischmann

Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.

- Candice Olson

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

- Chuck Palahniuk

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

- Benjamin Cardozo

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

- Boyd Rice

You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.

- Bjarke Ingels

Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.

- Baba Kalyani

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

- Bob Newhart

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

- Benjamin Disraeli