Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cecelia Ahern

You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny.

Edgar Allan Poe

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

Alexis Ohanian

I like sarcasm. I like snark.

Nick Hornby

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.

Daniel Johns

People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.

David Foster Wallace

sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.

Christopher Moore

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.

Christopher Moore

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

Jane Austen

You have delighted us long enough.

Brian Roberts

Pioneers are the ones who get the arrows in their backs,

Carrie Vaughn

Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow." Her voice held a smile. "So am I

Tony Buzan

I used to take formal notes in lines of blue, and underline the key words in red, and I realised I needed only the key words and the idea. Then to bring in connections, I drew arrows and put in images and codes. It was a picture outside my head of what was inside my head - 'mind map' is the language my brain spoke.

Michael R. Bloomberg

If we distributed money to the military this way, our troops in Iraq would have bows and arrows to fight with,

Aristotle

If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

African-American Proverb

Let rats shoot arrows at each other. Sudan

Source Unknown

It is with a word as with an arrow--once let it loose and it does not return.

Foster Friess

You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

Gregory Benford

True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled connection between twins is true in my case.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

Billy Collins

Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.

Isaac Hayes

I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

John Flavel

When the corn is nearly ripe it bows the head and stoops lower than when it was green. When the people of God are near ripe for heaven, they grow more humble and self-denying...Paul had one foot in heaven when he called himself the chiefest of all sinners and least of saints.

Ann Voskamp

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

Claes Oldenburg

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

Brendan Myers

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not worship.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.