Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beyonce Knowles

Acting is easier and smoother than singing - it's less drama.

Edward Hoagland

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

Edmond Rostand

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

Edith Sitwell

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Eddie Martinez

All the great guitarists have a spirit-a way they play and don't play.

Eddie Murphy

Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, "You got some big-ass lips!"

Eddie Murphy

I been seeing newspapers every Sunday morning, white dudes be in there in their drawers, never having no bulge in they drawers. Smiling at you. If I ain't have no bulge, I wouldn't be smiling!

Eddie Murphy

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

Eddie Izzard

But with dogs, we do have "bad dog." Bad dog exists. "Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!" The dog is saying, "Who are you to judge me? You human beings who’ve had genocide, war against people of different creeds, colors, religions, and I stole a biscuit?! Is that a crime? People of the world!" "Well, if you put it that way, I think you’ve got a point. Have another biscuit, sorry.

Eddie Izzard

Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "

Eddie Izzard

Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

Eddie Izzard

Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You"

Eddie Izzard

I am two lesbians in a man's body.

Eddie Izzard

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.

Eddie Izzard

Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

Eddie Izzard

I've done a bit of Latin in my time...but I can control it.

Eddie Izzard

There's not much makeup in the army, is there? No. They only have that nighttime look, and that's a bit slapdash, isn't it?

Eddie Izzard

No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying "Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?" "Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?" "Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?"

Eddie Izzard

"I've done your dog. It's got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs. What do you think of that?" "Fido looks a bit weird."

Eddie Izzard

There's two positions in snowboarding. One is looking cool and the other is DEAD!

Eddie Izzard

And the druids, they were into sex and death in an interesting night-time telly sort of way.

Eddie Izzard

Never put a sock in a toaster.

Eddie Izzard

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

Eddie Izzard

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

Eddie Izzard

If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

Ed Byrne

Ed, I see you're out drinking again. What's the occasion? I was sober.

Ed Asner

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

Earl Wilson

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

Dean Acheson

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

David Walton

Chemistrys a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

David Hyde Pierce

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.

David Brenner

When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.

David Brenner

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.