Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

I would say it's more within my expectations.

I think you're a witness and a recorder.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Peter Higgs

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

We will have to work within the budget.

William Butler Yeats

Who stole your wits awayAnd where are they gone?

Richard M. Nixon

I would have made a good pope.

Witnesses say he pretty much plowed into them, that he just tapped the brakes,

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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.

Antoine Rivarol

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.

Antoine Rivarol

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Bill Bryson

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

Bob Hope

No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties

Bjarne Stroustrup

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.

Chauncey Depew

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

Carl Jung

Nothing is possible without love.

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

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.