Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Giles

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd

Johnny Knoxville

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

John Wilmot

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

John Ruskin

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

John Peers

Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.

John Paxson

Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.

Shelley Berman

How do you tell how a man has been funny? How do you do the sound of his voice? The turn of his face? But I will tell you he was as funny as any man I've ever seen.

Mark Twain

I could have made a neat retort but didn't, for I was flurried and didn't think of it till I was downstairs

Joan Collins

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

Jim Steinman

If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.

Lou Reed

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Logan Pearsall Smith

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

Logan Pearsall Smith

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

Logan Pearsall Smith

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Logan Pearsall Smith

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Lois Lowry

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.

John Green

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

John Gielgud

I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

John Fletcher

It's impossible to ravish me, I'm so willing.

John Fletcher

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

John F. Kennedy

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

John F. Kennedy

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

John F. Kennedy

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Jonathan Franzen

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

Jonathan Demme

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

Jon Stewart

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

Jon Stewart

Here’s how bizarre the war is that we’re in in Iraq, and we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went into Iraq, Germany didn’t want to go. Germany. The Michael Jordan of war took a pass.

Jon Stewart

That's the beauty of our show. Comedy or politics. We're sort of a mix. A space age polymer of both. A synthetic comedy-like material.

Jon Stewart

Happy Valentine's Day! And if this is news to you, my guess is you're probably alone. Valentine's Day is often times a, well, it's a manufactured day that really doesn't mean anything.

Jon Stewart

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

Jon Stewart

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.