Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Krantz

Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience.

Jim Rice

Knowledge is power. Your education is the most important thing you can do.

Joe Wilson

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth.

Judith Guest

I'm not terrifically comfortable with even thinking about what I've accomplished in relation to who I am and how I relate to other people.

Ana Castillo

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

Russell Hoban

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

John Barth

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

John C. Hawkes

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

John C. Hawkes

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

Samuel Johnson

Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute.

Will Rogers

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

Steve Millburg

I love this boardwalk, even if it is one of the 'board-less' varieties. Actually, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk refers to both the seaside amusement park and the concrete path that runs through it. Here, find everything from a classic wooden roller coaster, a 1911 carousel, arcade and video games and an extra-wide beach with volleyball nets to free concerts, great surfing and windsurfing and a half-mile-long pier lined with seafood restaurants. Coastal nirvana.

Ken Jennings

One guy had this can't-miss idea to go dig up old coins at the site of former disused government mints, and he just needed a bit of money to get started ... some guy had an idea for an indoor amusement park.

Sean Penn

tearing oneself apart for the amusement of the audience.

Beverly Jones

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

Will Rogers

Our investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to knowledge

Neil MacGregor

It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands.

Orison Swett Marden

One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

Russ Rader

Safety should not be a luxury that only comes standard on high-end models. If side airbags aren't included in a popular option package, most people won't get them.

Russ Rader

Safety should not be a luxury that only comes standard on high-end models, ... If side airbags aren't included in a popular option package, most people won't get them.

Marcus Williams

The experiences here at the University of Connecticut included ups and downs, but I think they have all made me into a better person and for that, I will always be grateful.

Raza Rabbani

I don't think that Pakistan's opposition parties are included in the US president's schedule.

Juliet Landau

I was a professional ballerina. After becoming an actress, I did a lot of theater, which included musical theater. The first musical play I did was Murray Schisgal's 'The Pushcart Peddlers.'

Jason Moore

'Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music.

Alan Alda

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

Gary Hill

The petition included the total number of properties on the acreage, ... It did not specify that these two landowners would not be included in the annexation.

James Schamus

It's essentially flattering, It says more about those making of the jokes than about the movie.

Ronde Barber

It's not like we're messing with some jokes at wideout here,

Matt Roth

You don't want to make him mad. He's not one for jokes or antics.

Ben Falcone

I'm not much of a joke writer.

Adam Brody

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

Storm Jameson

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth ...

Stephen Colbert

Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.

Mason Cooley

Jokes are unanswerable objections.

Mike Birbiglia

Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.

Donald Kennedy

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