Famous Quotes & Sayings

Good Vietnam

Lt. Steven Hauk: Sir, in my heart, I know I'm funny.

Susan Danly

Magnum photographers can take a very somber picture but they can also take a very funny picture. I do hope people come away with a sense of humor about this.

Aaron Williams

Liam is real cool. He's a funny guy. He's real smart, and he shows real good leadership on and off the court.

Ed Reed

Let it play. It's funny. I'm glad I got that highlight if they are going to keep playing it and put me on TV like that.

Yoda

Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing

Michael Keaton

My first manager, he had left Germany when he was five, but he would joke about the Nazis. And I'd laugh, but I'd look at him, and he was the first one who told me, 'You know, funny is a powerful thing; it's a wonderful weapon.'

Gerard Way

One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny.

John Krasinski

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

Jane Elliot

I love playing smart and tough and having funny lines.

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.

Diane Johnson

Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

Denis Diderot

Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should not give wit to your characters, but know instead how to put them in situations which will make them witty.

Edgar Allan Poe

The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Make the most of What you have, When you have it, Where you are.

Edsger Dijkstra

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

William Shakespeare

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

Ayn Rand

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

A. J. Liebling

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Drake Bell

My favorite sport is baseball; my cousin is pitcher Heath Bell.

Charlotte Cipparone

My cousin Julie went with me. I dry-walled and put in insulation. Others did electric work, plumbing, et cetera.

Jane Green

My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.

Kathryn Harrison

I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household.

Connie Allen

I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done.

Ruth Adams

I first thought about doing a triathlon last summer when I went to New York and watched my cousin participate in one. I thought that the people looked normal, and that it would be a good way to get back into shape. It let me be normal again.

Bernadette Chiaro

Solar has always been the little cousin left out. It always has been pitted as this boutique, niche technology for backwoods hippies or Malibu millionaires.

Stanley Elkin

When I was growing up, we had a bungalow in New Jersey which we visited in the summers. Everybody in that small community was named Feldman and was either an aunt or cousin of mine. I just found it comfortable to use the name Feldman.

Ike Barinholtz

Mark Wahlberg, when I was in high school, people were like, 'You look like Marky Mark!' Then as I got older, they were like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg.' Now they're like, 'You look like Donnie Wahlberg's cousin from Massachusetts.'