Famous Quotes & Sayings

Teri Garr

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

Teri Hatcher

Tired people aren't witty

Joe Rogan

Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.

Joan Didion

I have not been the witness I wanted to be.

Emma Thompson

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

John Heywood

So many heads so many wits.

John Waters

If you think someone's trying too hard, that's the worst thing they can do. To me, it's just desperate, never funny and never witty. It's kind of really old hat because just being shocking isn't enough. It has to change how you think about something. It has to startle you. It has to make you look at something and reconsider whether you're right. That's the whole point.

John von Neumann

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

John Simm

Twitter has restored my faith in humanity. I thought I'd hate it, but while there are lots of knobheads, there are even more lovely people. It delights me how witty and friendly most people are.

Moses Hadas

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas

I have read your book and much like it.

Toks Olagundoye

All my friends are funny, witty, fun-loving people. As are my parents, and the people I work with. I get at least a couple of good laughs in every day.

Rajneesh

Learn to become more of a witness, create more watchfulness. Let each act, each thought, be seen.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I would never have written it without you. (Erin) And I would never have lived without you. (V'Aiden)

Theodore Kaczynski

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

Margaret Mead

Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems. I'm tired of solving them for you. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Michael Bennet

I think about Aaron Rodgers, he's like Chris Evans before he got the HGH injection in Captain America. But before he was super smart and was still witty and stuff. That's how I see Tom Brady.

Melissa Marr

What would I do without you?" "You'll never find out.

Randy Pausch

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet.

Emo Philips

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

Henry Adams

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry A. Kissinger

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry David Thoreau

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Lisa Kudrow

I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.

John Selden

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

Laurence J. Peter

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

Johnny Vegas

Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.

Terry Pratchett

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

Nora Roberts

Love without trust? It's not love at all.

[Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.