Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David Sedaris

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

Dave Barry

England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

Dave Barry

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

Dave Barry

The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar..

Dave Barry

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

Dave Barry

One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.

Dave Barry

Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.

Dave Barry

Europeans, like some Americans, drive on the right side of the road, except in England, where they drive on both sides of the road; Italy, where they drive on the sidewalk; and France, where if necessary they will follow you right into the hotel lobby.

Daniel Handler

Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.

Chelsea Handler

When you see the veins popping out of my neck, that's an exclamation point.

Henry Miller

Keep your exclamation points under control!

J. D. Salinger

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

Neal A. Maxwell

In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.

Jon Glaser

Changing the world, one exclamation point at a time.

Gail Carriger

She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.

Emile M. Cioran

All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.

Isaac Marion

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

Terry Pratchett

Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.

Terry Pratchett

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.