Overstated Quotes

“We live the seven deadly sins every bit as much as they did in colonial times, only now they are digital: Facebook is envy. Twitter is wrath. Instagram is pride, lust, gluttony, greed, and sloth. The internet is original sin. It’s all the knowledge in the world. The tree of knowledge. And now we have it. But in Genesis humans aren’t supposed to have all that access to information, because we can’t handle it.”
― Colin Quinn, Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States

“We are fun. But fun isn’t character. Character is in the ghosts of all the soldiers and hookers and farmers that still haunt our roads and trails.”
― Colin Quinn, Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States

“A man like Jim Norton would want to walk cautiously around there. He might get snatched up off the side of a mountain after being mistaken for a baby goat. Watching his flailing legs as he’s carted off to become lunch for a family of eagles would probably be visually hilarious, but it’s pretty horrible when you think about it.”
― Colin Quinn, Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States

“Everybody in South Dakota had a neck tattoo before it was trendy. If you ask for a paper plate for your hot dog, they think you’re gay.”
― Colin Quinn, Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States

“know they didn’t save it. Nobody does when they get money. When I was on Saturday Night Live, I shouldn’t have been throwing cash around like the black sheep in the Saudi royal family on a weekend in Belgium.”
― Colin Quinn, Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States

“They were the last state to say “I love you” to their kids. It’s not that Minnesotans don’t love their kids; they just believe you say it through work.”
― Colin Quinn, Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States

“No one had ever seen working people with self-esteem before America. Before America, working people took abuse and felt like they deserved it.”
― Colin Quinn, Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States

“Nobody wants to be judged on their twenty-year-old tramp stamp as they lean over to slap their eight-year-old daughter who’s wearing a shirt that says JAILBAIT.”
― Colin Quinn, Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States

“Like I would like to die onstage at the Comedy Cellar and then have Jim Norton have to follow me. And I’ll be on a cloud watching him bomb as he tries to make some “edgy” joke about my death and the crowd just stares at him.”
― Colin Quinn, Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States

“So essentially, the Declaration of Independence was Annie Hall—it was brilliant but only enjoyed by white people.”
― Colin Quinn, Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States

“When you moved, you didn't know know your drug addict cousins were going to follow you and ruin everything and use your good name to get people to trust them. Well, that's the history of America. It was decent people trying to escape their past and not realizing you can never escape your past; it follows you and ruins your credit rating.”
― Colin Quinn, Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States

“Like Silicon Valley back in the 90s. The nerds were suddenly the kings of the valley. They spent the 70s getting slapped around their towns and the 80s being computer geeks, and by the 90s they were the equivalent of football heroes. Hipsters came out of that. Hipsters were nerds rebelling against nerds. SoCal, Northern California took over your business and gave it out for free on YouTube!!”
― Colin Quinn, Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States