Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Carrie Fisher

Instant gratification takes too long.

Bill Vaughan

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

Bill Bryson

Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

Bob Fosse

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

Charlie Pierce

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?

Callie Khouri

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

Billy Mays

The best things in life are free - and $19.95.

James M. Barrie

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

James M. Barrie

She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.

Joan Rivers

She's so pure, Moses couldn't even part her knees.

George Ade

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

Eddie Cantor

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

Holly Black

If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.

Henry Van Dyke

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.

Kevin Spacey

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

Jonathan Swift

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Jonathan Swift

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

Jonathan Swift

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

Lyndsy Fonseca

I'm very bubbly, so when people meet me, they sometimes think I'm fake. I'm excited to meet new people, but I guess I sound I'm being sarcastic.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

Ludwig Borne

Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.

Orhan Pamuk

Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wildes books in a bookshop makes me smile.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

Ellen Glasgow

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

Ellen Glasgow

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Heath Ledger

The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever.

Hayley Williams

The lyrics were my sarcastic way of realizing you can't be the king of the hill all the time.

Helen Rowland

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

Heinrich Heine

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

Heinrich Heine

She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.