Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charles Krauthammer

History is not just cruel. It is witty.

William Shakespeare

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Carl Jung

Nothing is possible without love.

is not going to be a witch hunt; it's a fact-finding mission.

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.

Indira Gandhi

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J. Edgar Hoover

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

Sarah Ferguson

Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

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

David Garrick

I've that within - for which there are no plasters.

It was very well lit. We have a lot of witnesses and there's the surveillance camera.

Mark Bishop

Through witness interviews, we have two suspects, but as of yet, we have no descriptions.

Joseph Joubert

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

Glenn Close

Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin.

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Georgette Heyer

Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do so wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense, but it's questionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter, or recovering from flu. Its period detail is good; my husband says it's witty---and without going to these lengths, I will say that it is very good fun.

Henry David Thoreau

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

H. L. Mencken

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Jerry Seinfeld

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Jerry Seinfeld

Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?

Jim Gaffigan

It's so obvious The Weather Channel is pro hurricane. Fair and balanced my ass.

Jim Burke

You can't have success without trust... especially in businesses that deal with the public.

Christopher Hitchens

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

Gary Zukav

I cannot create authentic power in you. I can only create authentic power in myself. But, I cannot create it in myself without you.