Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amanda Peet

If you think about it, there aren't that many women who are in their 40s, who are Jewish and funny and stage-worthy.

Amy Jo Johnson

I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity', but it would be kind of funny.

There is medium- and longer-term value in there for the government so they would be smarter holding onto it and placing it in the Future Fund if they didn't need the funds immediately.

Ambrose Bierce

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Charles Nelson Reilly

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.

Wayne Gretzky

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

Derek Hough

I think for me, the thing that gets me in the right mindset is just watching something funny, something light, something that makes me feel good. Regardless of what it is - when you feel good, when you feel upbeat, creativity flows!

Derek Hough

Can someone's true value really be estimated? Maybe there needs to be an Edmunds.com for people on TV. That would be funny and possibly cruel.

Chandler Parsons

I'm very lighthearted, outgoing, friendly, and funny, so I like to try new things.

I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books, including 'Fraction Fun,' 'Calculator Riddles,' and 'Shape Up!' 'Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons.'

William Shakespeare

Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.

William Shakespeare

Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

William Shakespeare

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Erma Bombeck

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Seeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour.

Hank Johnson

As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.

J. C. Watts

We are perfect for each other. I like someone thoughtful, serious and intelligent, but I also want him to be fun and silly. He has to be able to make me laugh ? if a man can do that, he's pretty well got me.

Xavier Niel

It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.

Yakov Smirnoff

I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

Imelda May

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

Idina Menzel

I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

Ian Frazier

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Gaines Adams

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Constance Wu

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Chris Bohjalian

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Adora Svitak

Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

Adrian Grenier

Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

Adrian Grenier

Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.

Adrian Grenier

I want to show people that environmentalism can be fun!

Addison Mizner

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Adam Smith

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.