Famous Quotes & Sayings

We had no money, no funding from the university. We were literally starting from scratch. We had no office. We had no vehicle.

Charles Evers

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

Charles Bukowski

You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

Charles Bukowski

I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions.

Charles Bukowski

we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years

Charles Bukowski

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Sydney Smith

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

We have really been moved by so much tragedy that I said to our guys that we need to do something that can lighten their load momentarily and give the people a fun evening. We hope we can get several thousand to come out and have a good time.

The procedure took some time, and it was a lot of fun.

Molly Antopol

When I'm writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me - they're responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I'm in, and I think about their responses constantly.

James Howe

When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny.

When I die, I want it to say 'Short and Funny' on my tombstone.

Alan Ruck

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.

Gilbert Arenas

We used to have our words down there, a lot of trash talking, ... It should be fun to see what he recalls from last year because I do have a different game from last year.

Thomas Haden Church

But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie.

Tom Sizemore

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

Edward Abbey

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

Edward Abbey

The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.

Edward Abbey

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

Edward Abbey

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

Edward Abbey

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Eddie Rickenbacker

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

Aubrey Beardsley

I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.

Aubrey Plaza

It's such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet.

Aristotle

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

Aristotle

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

Aristotle

Walked right by an ex-girlfriend today. Not on purpose, I just didn't recognize her with her mouth closed.

Ben Hogan

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

Ben Harper

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Ben Jonson

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

Eddie Van Halen

Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.