Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

A. J. Liebling

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Adrienne Rich

I feel more helpless with you than without you.

Colin Quinn

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

We will have to work within the budget.

Richard M. Nixon

I would have made a good pope.

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

William Shakespeare

Muster your wits; stand in your own defence...

William Shakespeare

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

David Karp

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.

Dan Quayle

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made

Dan Quayle

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

Dan Quayle

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

Cyrano de Bergerac

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.

William Butler Yeats

Who stole your wits awayAnd where are they gone?

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

William Shakespeare

Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.

William Shakespeare

I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Unfortunately, there were no witnesses and there's very little evidence.

William Shakespeare

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.

Anne Lamott

My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.

Annie Baker

I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

D. J. MacHale

Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.

Clifton Fadiman

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

Alexander Pope

I have more zeal than wit.

Dorothy Richardson

Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.

Donna Leon

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

Donald Barthelme

HENRY: Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.

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