Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Vegas

Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.

Terry Pratchett

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

Nora Roberts

Love without trust? It's not love at all.

[Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Eric Idle

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

Maurice Sendak

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

They say, 'we're within the treaty, we're within our rights'.

There is now a shortlist and we should make an appointment within the week.

You're just as witty as you feel, just as witty as you feel inside.

Roman Coppola

I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

Sacha Guitry

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

Rumi

You have Within you more love than you could ever understand.

Stephen Hadley

We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.

Paula Poundstone

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

Peter Schiff

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

Plato

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

Seymour Cray

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )

Seymour Cray

Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )

Seymour Cray

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

Larry David

Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course

Suzanne Collins

I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.

Suzanne Collins

By the end of the session, I am no one at all. Haymitch started drinking somewhere around witty, and a nasty edge has crept into his voice. "I give up, sweetheart. Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them.

Sophie Kinsella

Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth, but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

Starhawk

In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.

Stan Laurel

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Stephenie Meyer

You are the noblest, purest creature I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you," he whispered.

Sid Caesar

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

Natalie Maines

It almost takes people by surprise when I'm not a big talker. Because I'm known as being sort of a loud mouth. I have a lot to say. But I try to be more thoughtful with my comments or reactions, unless it's something witty or hysterical that I just can't keep myself from blurting or tweeting!

Tony Benn

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

Robert A. Heinlein

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

Toni Morrison

The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.