Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Goldwyn

We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.

Samuel Goldwyn

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP.

Samuel Goldwyn

You fail to overlook the crucial point.

Samuel Goldwyn

Tell them to stand closer apart.

Samuel Goldwyn

Don't improve it into a flop!

Samuel Goldwyn

Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

Samuel Goldwyn

There is a statue of limitation.

Samuel Goldwyn

I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.

Samuel Goldwyn

In two words, impossible.

Samuel Goldwyn

A Hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn

Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.

Thomas Hobbes

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Thomas Kretschmann

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

Georgette Heyer

Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do so wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense, but it's questionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter, or recovering from flu. Its period detail is good; my husband says it's witty---and without going to these lengths, I will say that it is very good fun.

Henry David Thoreau

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

H. L. Mencken

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Jerry Seinfeld

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Jerry Seinfeld

Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?

Jim Gaffigan

It's so obvious The Weather Channel is pro hurricane. Fair and balanced my ass.

Jim Burke

You can't have success without trust... especially in businesses that deal with the public.

Christopher Hitchens

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

Gary Zukav

I cannot create authentic power in you. I can only create authentic power in myself. But, I cannot create it in myself without you.

Franklin P. Adams

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them

Jelly Roll Morton

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

George S. Patton

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Esha Gupta

I like my man to be witty; he needs a sense of humour and needs to be extremely well-mannered.

Ernest Hemingway

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Jhonen Vasquez

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

Hannah Arendt

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

Gore Vidal

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

Gore Vidal

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.