Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Krugman

Are you, or is someone you know, a gadget freak? If so, you doubtless know that Wednesday was iPhone 5 day, the day Apple unveiled its latest way for people to avoid actually speaking to or even looking at whoever they're with.

Paul Dickson

Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

Paul Dickson

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

Patrick Swayze

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

Patrick Ewing

We might make a lot of money but, we also spend a lot of money.

Patrick Chan

Experience is a funny thing. You dont always have it when you need it.

Ozzie Guillen

I love Fidel Castro, I respect Fidel Castro, you know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherf****r is still here.

Ovid

A woman is always buying something.

Paul Mazursky

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

Paul Lynde

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

Paul Lynde

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

Paul McCartney

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

Paul McCartney

It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine.

Patty Duke

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

Susan Sontag

Ours is a society in which secrets of private life that, formerly, you would have given nearly anything to conceal, you now clamor to get on a television show to reveal.

Susan Sontag

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Scott Adams

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

Scott Adams

No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab.

Scott Adams

As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing a conga line.

Scott Adams

I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.

Scott Adams

There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft.

Scott Adams

Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.

Scott Adams

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

Scott Adams

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Ray Stevens

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

Ray Romano

For the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two.

Ray Romano

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

Ray Floyd

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.

Thomas Jefferson

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour

Rick Reilly

The best thing to ever happen to marriage is the pause-live-TV button.

Roy Orbison

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

Rob Corddry

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

Richard P. Feynman

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work, although, there has been in these days, some interest in this kind, thing.