Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

Sam Levenson

The American success formula is first to get a home of your own, then to get a car of your own so you don't have to stay in that home of your own.

Sheila Ballantyne

Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.

Shel Silverstein

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

Natalie Merchant

I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

Simon Pegg

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

Thomas Carlyle

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

Thomas Carlyle

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Steve Martin

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

Steve Buscemi

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

Stanislaw Lem

Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

Stanislaw Lem

Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain!

Stanislaw Lem

In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

Stanislaw Lem

I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove And in our bound partition never part.

Sergio Aragones

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

Tim Allen

Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding." Climbing a tree to talk to God sounds like a better idea since only God can make a tree. And if that tree's on a golf course, all the better.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Steven Wright

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

Steven Wright

A metaphor is like a simile.

Steven Wright

I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty .... Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.

Victor Kiam

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

Victor Borge

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Robert Frost

An idea is a feat of association.

Robert Benchley

If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.

Robert Benchley

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Rita Rudner

Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man.

Rita Rudner

Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.

Rita Mae Brown

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

Rene Descartes

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Thornton Wilder

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

Rumi

Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.