Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Jennings

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

Mallory Ortberg

Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

Ricky Gervais

A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.

Tracy McMillan

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

Bob Costas

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

Billy Connolly

I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow.

Brian Tracy

Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.

Brian Tracy

Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done.

Brian Boyle

How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton?

Brendan Coyle

You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

Elaine Stritch

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

Diane Keaton

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Dennis Ritchie

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

Daniel Handler

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

Ashleigh Brilliant

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

Ashleigh Brilliant

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

Arthur Hailey

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

She had a robust sense of humor and the most infectious laugh.

Since it's a very small car, I don't have much office space.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

Arthur Conan Doyle

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

Arthur Conan Doyle

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

Barbara Johnson

Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.

Bahman Ghobadi

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

Barbara Mertz

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

Arthur Miller

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Art Buchwald

People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even

Art Buchwald

The things that matter most are not things.