Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.

Antoine Rivarol

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Bill Bryson

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

Al Gore

A zebra does not change its spots.

Charles Pierce

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Ayn Rand

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Ayn Rand

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Bill Cosby

I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.

Bill Cosby

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.

C. S. Lewis

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

Carrie Underwood

Brad Paisley has always been really great to me, and that's no secret.

Carl Sagan

Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.

Tommy Russell

I think Ward is one of the best-kept secrets in West Tennessee.

Jason Schmidt

I don't know what the big secret is.

Andrew Scott

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Mark Wilkinson

I think it's a better-kept secret than the Special Forces.

Stacy Sullivan

Like starting a non-profit, being a chess champion, or football champion. Something they had passion for and excelled at.

Lesley Visser

I think it will be a heck of a chess match.

Bill Chandler

I credit chess with helping to pull me out of depression and affording me a true circle of friends whom refuse to judge me for what they see on the outside.

Paul Greening

He was a well-liked student with lots of friends. He was a good math student and a good chess player.

Kevin Black

I wouldn't be surprised if he was a chess master. He likes competition and has fun competing.

Gene Chizik

I think their M.O. has been, if they do something new, to do it early and see what you do. They're really looking intently to see what you do so they know where to go with the next step. It's a chess game. If you don't play it well, they come back and do it again. If you do play it well, they go to Plan B.

Chris Jacobs

He's been doing an excellent job. When he goes out on defense, he's got more energy. (Porters Chapel) made some good adjustments, double-teamed him and did a good job of running away from him. We did move him where they were running, and it was a chess game. But he's turned into his own.

Dedrick L.

MEN LISTEN. Life is a chess game. PROTECT YOUR QUEENS

Boris Spassky

The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.