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.

Nicky Hilton

Paris is really young at heart - I'm the older one in the relationship. I'm always telling her not to do stuff. If she's wearing something really silly, I'm like, "Don't go out wearing that.

Gerard Warren

Part of me is still in Cleveland. But that's the past. My heart and my mind are in Denver.

Dan Savage

Our people love this product. They put their heart into their work every single day.

Mike Scioscia

Our starting rotation has been the heartbeat of our club,

Vincent Millay

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn / What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

Aidan Quinn

Paul would be laughing with extras and saying, 'Yes, and then we could do that,' and, 'Let's try this,' and I'm like, 'OK, but we've got to go!'

Becca Fitzpatrick

You laugh, but you haven't seen me in a tux. Or maybe you don't like broad-shouldered guys with muscular chest and washboard abs?

B. B. King

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

Carl Reiner

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

Carl Reiner

Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

Bette Davis

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

Berkeley Breathed

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.

Bertrand Russell

Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.