Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shahrukh Khan

Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.

Shahrukh Khan

Well Mandira, I hope not. You see, I started both their careers. And as far as i can remember, I started yours too.

Shahrukh Khan

If you like me, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards

Steven Moffat

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.

Richard Hawley

Without music I would never, ever have travelled anywhere.

Richard Helms

A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.

T. S. Eliot

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Sydney J. Harris

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Susan Sontag

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Lily Tomlin

I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.

Lily Tomlin

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

Les Dawson

I went to my doctor and asked for something for persistent wind. He gave me a kite.

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.

Richelle Mead

My commentary's hilarious, not witty.

Richelle Mead

I always love it whenever Rose delivers one of her witty one-liners—particularly when it’s a completely serious situation. The contrast always amuses me, but then, I’m biased.

Umberto Eco

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Truman Capote

The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.

Pancho Villa

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

Mel Brooks

I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.

Martin Amis

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

Martin Amis

I love the working class, and everyone from it that I've met, and think they're incredible witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there. A lot of rough stuff as well. What there is, too, is an awful lot of expressiveness and intelligence and originality down there. And a lot of thwarted intelligence.

Pope Francis

A credible witness to truth and to the values of the Gospel is urgently needed.