Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Danai Gurira

Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.

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.

Ciaran Hinds

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

Anthea Turner

Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt.

Anthony Burgess

Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.

Andy Rooney

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

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.

Abraham Lincoln

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

Andrew Marvell

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

Andy Borowitz

It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.

Aesop

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

We did not actually get to witness the reunion.

Jandy Nelson

The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?

Ricky Gervais

Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.

Susan B. Anthony

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

Bob Dylan

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

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.

Billy Joel

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

Edward Hoagland

A writer's work is to witness things.

Edmond Rostand

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

Edna Ferber

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.