Famous Quotes & Sayings

But because of his intelligence, his wit and his insightfulness and his kind of all-consuming warmth, that would go away.

Carl von Clausewitz

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

Al Capone

Vote early and vote often.

Al Gore

A zebra does not change its spots.

Barbara Cartland

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

Aristophanes

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Edmund Burke

There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

Elie Wiesel

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

Colin Quinn

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

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.

Douglas Adams

Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, " This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in; fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well! It must have been made to have me in it!

Clive James

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Dylan Moran

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty

e. e. cummings

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Dustin Hoffman

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

Douglas Coupland

I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.

Chuck Klosterman

The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whiskeytown.

Christopher Morley

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

Angelina Jolie

And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much.

Andre Maurois

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

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.

Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

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.

Douglas William Jerrold

Malice blunts the point of wit.

Douglas William Jerrold

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.

Don Marquis

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Dinah Shore

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.