Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rex Stout

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Raymond Chandler

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

Raymond Chandler

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

Raymond Chandler

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

Raymond Chandler

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

Rick Riordan

She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.

Tracey Ullman

I think serial monogamy says it all.

Tracey Ullman

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

Tracey Ullman

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

Tori Spelling

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

Veronica Roth

Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl" I frown. "You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl" I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.

Robert Graves

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

Rudyard Kipling

I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

Sugar Ray Robinson

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

Sugar Ray Robinson

My business is hurting people.

Studs Terkel

The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.

Stewart Brand

Whenever I hear the word "share" I would reach for a gun if I had one. "Share" is frequently followed by the word "feelings", and I have enough of my own thank you; please do us both a favor and repress yours.

Steve Coogan

In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.

Steve Coogan

I'm gonna hump ya. Like Deputy Dog... Would hump ya.

Steve Coogan

Got my fungal foot powder? Ah, it's a lifesaver, you know. I'd effectively be disabled if it weren't for these.

Steve Coogan

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

Steve Coogan

I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.

Steve Coogan

Guide dogs for the blind. It's cruel really, isn't it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of them.

Steve Coogan

Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.

Steve Coogan

Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you'd find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course... they're altogether a higher class of fat lady.

Steve Coogan

Sadly, I can't say the same for my Father, who is probably in a different place - Hell.

Steve Coogan

It's arguably the best newspaper in the world.

Steve Coogan

That was liquid football

Steve Coogan

There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.

Steve Coogan

You really have got lots of issues! Yeah, of 'What Car Magazine'!

Steve Coogan

I'm 47, my girlfriend's 33; she's 14 years younger than me, back of the net!

Steve Coogan

If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater.