Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Ernest Rutherford

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

Christopher Hitchens

Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing remarks (which I amended when I read Anthony Powell's matter-of-fact observation that teasing is an unfailing sign of misery within) and as is my very pronounced impatience. The struggle, therefore, is to try and cultivate the virtuous side of these shortcomings: to be a genial host while only slightly whiffled, for example, or to be witty at the expense of one's own weaknesses instead of those of other people.

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.

Jim Butcher

Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

Jessi Klein

Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.

George Herbert

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

Mindy Kaling

I have a goofy side that impacts my clothing a lot. To that end, I love witty, colorful, prints.

Joseph Joubert

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

Moliere

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Grant Morrison

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

George Herbert

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Giacomo Casanova

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

Giacomo Casanova

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Ian Fleming

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Ian Fleming

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Horace Greeley

You may be witty, but not satirical.

Erica Jong

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Irving Kristol

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Indira Gandhi

Would you consider a man or a woman to be complicated? Is it that difficult to understand both the sexes? We say that we know what the other sex is all about, but is that really true? Perhaps the following witty, funny quotes and sayings can help simplify things down about men.

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.

Kate Upton

Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive.

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.

Pete Wilson

We can’t live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.