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witty people world
Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent. Antoine Rivarol
witty disappointment party
I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all. Bill Bryson
witty lying trying
Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
witty self rose
He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face. Becca Fitzpatrick
witty fun lying
Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee. William Shakespeare
witty learning dinner
I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.
witty memorable should
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
witty memories kids
A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. If your kids look like you, it's hereditory. If they look like the neighbor, it's the environment. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. Dave Barry
witty stupid party
What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-sounding word that we tend to use when we would really like to come up with a terrific-ally witty insult, the kind Winston Churchill always came up with when enormous women asked him stupid questions at parties.
expression government
The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities. Alex Pareene
expression history putting time
Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context. Nina Garcia
expression typical would-be
The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one! C. S. Lewis
expression aesthetic shows
A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success. Cecil Beaton
expression judging people
She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging by the activity on her forehead...It was almost the conversations in her head were loud enough to fill her silence. Cecelia Ahern
expression light magic
The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression. Carrie Fisher
expression race brain
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
expression trying snapshots
In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot. Bill Brandt
expression faces humans level meaning process types understand
I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication. Mark Zuckerberg
order two mind
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.
order giving sometimes
Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core
order voice demand
In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. Carrie Chapman Catt
order difficult-situations survivor
You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
order quests tiny
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.
order
Order doesn't come by itself. Benoit Mandelbrot
order needs might
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships Anthony Storr
order years pay
In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison. Bill Vaughan
order momentum achieve
We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.