Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Steinem

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Harry S Truman

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

J. K. Rowling

Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.

J. K. Rowling

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

Kris Carr

I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't?

Kim Harrison

Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

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.

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)

Norbert Wiener

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

Noel Coward

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Miguel de Cervantes

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Miguel de Cervantes

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

Miguel de Cervantes

Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

Miguel de Cervantes

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

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.

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.

Matthew McConaughey

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.

Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

Maurice Sendak

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

Mason Cooley

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

Mason Cooley

In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.

Mason Cooley

Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.

Mason Cooley

My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.

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.