Famous Quotes & Sayings

Veronica Roth

What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun?” says Christina. “Yes,” says Will, looking puzzled. “Didn’t you?

The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious.

Vince Gill

It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

Vince Vaughn

The best thing as an actor, the best tool you have is your imagination. That you kind of take things that have happened, and then go and expand on them. However small it is, you use your imagination to create what that reality is. There's something kind of fun when you're not old enough to do anything, driving a car, getting into a bar, drinking, going to a party you don't belong to, something when you're young in that innocent way.

Vince Vaughn

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

Robert Graves

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Rudyard Kipling

I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

Samuel Johnson

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Samuel Johnson

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Samuel Johnson

Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

Samuel Johnson

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Sam Waterston

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

Samantha Bee

It's fun to be surrounded by people that you love.

Sam Altman

M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations.

Ryan Guzman

I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.

Ryan Adams

It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.

Rufus Wainwright

Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me - I could make them up and learn bits and pieces of what was going on over time. There's something about it being always a step away that makes it more fun to chase.

Rufus Wainwright

My love of classical hit pretty early. I was 13 when it occurred, and that was really the only music I listened to for many, many years. I went to a conservatory, but I always knew I would be in the pop world, because A) it was more fun and B) you didn't have to practice as much and you could go out more. But I immediately saw this opportunity to inject my material with these sounds that most members of my generation really didn't know about, so it was a great way to differentiate myself from the pack.

Roy Bean

I find this corpse guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and I fine it $40.

Rowan Atkinson

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

Rowan Atkinson

Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.

Rowan Atkinson

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

Rowan Atkinson

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

Rowan Atkinson

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

Ronald Reagan

But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth .

Ronald Reagan

I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that that one little mountain has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so concerned about.

Ronald Reagan

The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)

Ronald Reagan

If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip

Rodney Atkins

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

Rodney Dangerfield

Boy what a hotel that was, why they stole my towel.

Rodney Dangerfield

Last Halloween a kid tried to rip my face off. He thought it was a mask. Now it's different when I open the door the kids hand me candy.

Rodney Dangerfield

I went to a freak show and they let me in for nothing.