Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.

Mason Cooley

City wits, country humorists.

Mason Cooley

Even boredom has its crises.

Mary Kay Ash

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

Michiel Huisman

The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.

Mick Foley

I really like it. I really, really like it. Ah, ah, ah, ah...buried alive...buried alive.

Mick Foley

I'm no expert, Rock, but I don't think I have any poontang...to give you.

Michel Gondry

My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.

Michael Jordan

I know what I would do if I were coach. I'd determine our strengths and weaknesses and utilize them. And it's pretty clear what our strength is.

Martha Scott

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

Martha Plimpton

I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.

Martha Stewart

Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter.

Mark Ruffalo

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

Ozzy Osbourne

Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

P. G. Wodehouse

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

P. G. Wodehouse

An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.

P. G. Wodehouse

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

P. G. Wodehouse

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

P. G. Wodehouse

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

P. G. Wodehouse

It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.

Paul Newman

The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

Paul Epworth

One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.

Matt Groening

I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

Matt Groening

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

Matt Groening

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.

Matt Groening

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson

Matt Groening

It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.

Matt Groening

Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.

Mary Wortley Montagu

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

Mark Hamill

I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship.

Marion Nestle

The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.

Paul Rudd

I was at a dinner party with a group of people, and we were talking about fake names. You know, how its difficult to come up with a really great fake name. Its a very specific type of gift. You don't want to go too far into the silly, and you don't want to go too far into the banal. I always thought one of the funniest names ever was Gern Blanston, which came from a Steve Martin routine on one of his early records.

Paul Harvey

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?