Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Dodd

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- Ive got to have them.

Kathy Griffin

I am in love with Larry David.

Keanu Reeves

I was hopeless at high school - I failed everything but Latin....

Kristen Wiig

It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it in a continuous flow, the elasticity of the gas pushing its particles into space will continuously push the cask itself. The result will a continuous change in the motion of the cask. Given a sufficient number of taps (say, six), we would be able to regulate the outflow of the gas as we liked and the cask (or sphere) would describe any curved line in accordance with any law of velocities.

For pretty much the last 38 days, there was significant rainfall going on somewhere in the state.

Abby Wambach

For some of them it's going to be their last go-round for an international event. I think that's going to be all the more motivation.

Ivan Illich

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

Ivan Illich

Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms -- out-moded even in the United States -- all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.

Ivan Illich

Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.

Isaiah Washington

I laugh a lot and laugh loudly!

Isaiah Mustafa

I just like making people laugh.

Isaiah Berlin

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.

Ismail Haniyeh

The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives. States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established.

Ismail Haniyeh

The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

Isla Fisher

An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.

Isak Dinesen

It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.

Isak Dinesen

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.

Irrfan Khan

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

Iris Murdoch

... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.

Imre Lakatos

Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.

Ina May Gaskin

It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.

Ike Skelton

In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

Ichiro Ozawa

The Constitution is the fundamental rule for people to live in society. If the rule no longer suits the lives of the general public due to changing times, it should be changed. That goes for regular laws as well as the Constitution.

Ida B. Wells

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

Ida B. Wells

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

Hunter Tylo

I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place.

Gloria Naylor

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Gloria Steinem

I live in the land of delight - of just walking in the street, and the sun is shining, and I'm on my way to Starbucks and I'm feeling good. I also live for those aha! moments when you understand something new, when you see two things fitting together to make a surprising third. There's actually a chemical that's produced in the brain by learning that gives you that little ecstatic moment of, Oh, that's why.

Gloria Steinem

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

Gloria Steinem

humor is the only free emotion. I mean, you can compel fear, as we know. You can compel love, actually ... But you can't compel laughter. It happens when two things come together and make a third unexpectedly.

Gloria Steinem

Law and justice are not always the same.

Gloria Steinem

I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.