Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Walken

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

Christopher Walken

I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.

Christopher Walken

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

Christopher Walken

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

Christopher Walken

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

Christopher Meloni

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

Christopher Morley

The plural of spouse is spice.

Christopher Morley

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Christopher Morley

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Christopher Morley

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Anne Boyd

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.

Angelina Jolie

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

Andrew Bogut

We scored a season-high, yeah - albeit against a team that is somewhat tanking.

Andrew Carnegie

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

Andrew Carnegie

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Amy Adams

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

Amos Bronson Alcott

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Alyson Hannigan

I know quickly whether a guy is boyfriend material. If I can have a good time doing absolutely nothing with him, then that's boyfriend material for me. Like if we're able to have fun at a gas station. I've had some really good times at gas stations.

Anne Tyler

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

Anna Kournikova

I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

Allison Williams

She watched the first episode and she was like, 'This is feminism?' And then by the end of the season, she was like, 'This is feminism.' The tone changed completely. She was really psyched about it.

Anita Loos

One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?

Andrew Lang

Life's more amusing than we thought.

Andrew Lang

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Ambrose Bierce

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Ambrose Bierce

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Ambrose Bierce

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Ambrose Bierce

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Ambrose Bierce

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Ambrose Bierce

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Ambrose Bierce

In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.

Ambrose Bierce

General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy.