Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Adams

There is another theory that states: This has already happened ....

Douglas Adams

There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.

Douglas Adams

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Douglas Adams

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

Dale Carnegie

Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Cynthia Heimel

A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.

Clive James

Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.

Clive James

Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.

Clive James

In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I speak, it looked like a scorched beer-coaster or a tenderized disc brake.

Clive James

Spending all my remaining money on a ticket to Florence was rendered needlessly complicated by the fact that none of the ticket-sellers had ever heard of the place. At last their supervisor showed up and set them straight by informing them that the city they had always referred to as 'Firenze' was in reality called Florence.

E. B. White

The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.

David Mamet

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

Davy Jones

And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.

Chuck Norris

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Alfred Hitchcock

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?

Anatole France

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Ann Beattie

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

Anjelica Huston

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

Christopher Moore

This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Anne Sexton

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

Ambrose Bierce

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

Ambrose Bierce

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Anthony Hopkins

I've got a great sense of humor.

Angus Young

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

Allen Klein

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Allen Klein

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

Allen Klein

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

Allen Klein

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Allen Klein

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

Allen Klein

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

Allen Klein

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Allen Klein

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.