Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Jennings

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.

Robert Mankoff

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

Mallory Ortberg

Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

John Scalzi

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.

Diane Keaton

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Dennis Ritchie

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

Edsger Dijkstra

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Carlos Ponce

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

Eddie Vedder

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

Dennis Ritchie

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

Edsger Dijkstra

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Dizzy Dean

The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.

Chris Hill

Since it's a very small car, I don't have much office space.

Jeff Foxworthy

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

Jerome K. Jerome

Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

Charlie Chaplin

Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked.

Charlie Chaplin

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

Charles Dickens

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

Stump Mitchell

Mack always is looking to get better, not just maintain.

Jared Bernstein

Maybe we were looking under the wrong rock.

Bill Fulkerson

Maybe we're looking at November for oral arguments.

Simon Hawkins

Obviously we weren't able to offer him what he was looking for.

Matt Campbell

Obviously, we're looking to go well past ($1,000) this year.

Chris Rudge

One would rightfully say that you shouldn't just be looking at the quantity of medals, you should also be looking at the quality of medals.

Sheperd Paine

Monogram was reissuing the kits they made in the '50s, and they were looking for something new to give them some oomph,

Johnny Damon

More times than not, he's going to come through. He threw some tough pitches on the outside of the plate to get him looking out there, then he threw a perfect pitch in. Shields was an All-Star for a reason.

Christopher Monger

Now we are looking for distribution and fielding our first sales offers,

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Marshall Strickland

There are so many reasons for us to win.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Source Unknown

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.