Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michelle Gomez

I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.

Diana Wynne Jones

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

Deirdre O'Kane

Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

Bob Dylan

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

Adam Brody

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

Andy Murray

Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.

Andrew Davies

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

John Millington Synge

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

Bill Cosby

If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it

Lady Gregory

I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.

Denis Leary

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.

Bernard Laporte

If we win, I don't see how Ireland could better our points difference.

Tony Blair

Yet here we are for all the difficulties in Northern Ireland able to point back to real improvements in the security and the standards of living,

Linda Doyle

Because Ireland is an island, it can be a playground for spectrum.

Ian Paisley

Do they think that the people of Northern Ireland are fools?

John Cooney

Middle-class Ireland has effectively become a la carte Catholics.

George Bernard Shaw

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

Jonathan Powell

Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.

Alex Johnson

Like all the wind was knocked out of you.

A. Johnson

(Luca) wasn't that sharp, especially after he got the wind knocked out of him. We were able to get into their bullpen, which is really important in the third (game of the series).

Henry Johnson

Leadership requires talking about the right things and doing the right things, and sometimes you take your knocks when you do that.

Sharon Versyp

(Minnesota) took Cyndi totally out of the game. Nikki (Smith) stepped in and was able to knock some shots down.

Aaron Peirsol

My life has been no downs, just ups knock on wood. So far, it's been all right.

Nick Vitucci

Maybe this is good. It knocked us down a bit. Maybe we're back to reality a bit.

Patrick Sparks

Maybe it was a little deep, but I knocked it down.

Jenic Tumaneng

I can't knock parents for their opinions. But I can't please every parent.

Larry Coker

From my understanding, they were knocked unconscious with a helmet.

Del Ali

Missouri voters really aren't sure what's going on with the president.

Brian Daubach

Missed it by one day again. Hopefully, the next time is for real.

Don Brownlee

Much of the science of this mission hasn't been done yet.

Tyrone Calico

My first year, he'd miss tons of practices and still come out and play good.

Brandon Perkins

My first thought was, 'Just don't miss him.

Chuck Amato

One play did something to turn it around. We're all over that thing, and we miss an opportunity to make a play. They go down and score, and it just steamrolled.

Vinny Testaverde

Obviously, we're going to miss him (Glenn). But at the same time we have to move on. That's how we operate here.

Lou Schmidt

Obviously we saw things totally different that the officials did. They even missed numbers. We had one player ejected who was on the bench. He wasn't even part of it. But the outcome of it all was that Berkley got right back into the game.

Mike Mordecai

No one has talked to me about anything than just day-to-day. The thing for me is I really miss my kids.

Alphonso Jackson

So it's a very, very unique job, but at the same time, it's very, very rewarding.

Dennis Haysbert

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.

Deborah Tannen

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

Edgar Allan Poe

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out...

Eleanor Roosevelt

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.

Edvard Munch

I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.

Elizabeth Bowen

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

Eliot Engel

Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell.

Eleanor Smeal

We think it's so important that we get [Carolyne] Maloney in that seat [in Congress]. It's one of the reasons; we also think that she is a unique person that deserves it and would help advance women's rights.