Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.

Ruth J. Simmons

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

Michelle Gomez

I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.

Deirdre O'Kane

Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

Bob Dylan

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

Diana Wynne Jones

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

Adam Brody

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

Andy Murray

Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.

Andrew Davies

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

John Millington Synge

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

Bill Cosby

If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it

Kourtney Kardashian

Mom always told us to wear pretty, matching underwear.

Babe Paley

The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

Kathy Holleman

The problem with that is there is just no telling when you would get a matching organ.

Cheryl Tweedy

I always wear a matching set,a nice thong and a nice bra. I could'n wear underpant now.

George Kafkarkou

Each suite in the lineup is matching up to those particular segments.

Miuccia Prada

They are mostly separates, ... We have some skirts matching with some blousons. Mainly, I showed the ones that I think are the more interesting.

Gallant

When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'

Brian Jones

I'm scared of them already. I'm already thinking about matching up with them next season. It's going to be tough.

Cassandra Clare

Is this some manly bonding thing I can't be a part of? Are you getting matching haircuts?

Cecil Beaton

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

Bertrand Russell

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

John Anderson

We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.

Robert Full

It doesn't look like any real animal, but all of the principles are there.

David Korten

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

David Korten

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

Chris Cleave

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Christie

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

William Shawcross

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

Jeff Friedman

Well, our response is for the negotiating team, during negotiations.

Phil Harding

We have had a tremendous response from our dealers and customers.

Mark Cuban

Johnson's response then: ??I don't know, I don't know.

Greg Stone

I'm shocked. I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Shaukat Aziz

We are satisfied with the response but we want more,

Greg Stone

I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Scott Baker

It can be more than that. It's not unusual for all of the staff to work on responses

Paul Goldblatt

This was not a response to any one incident.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Peter R. Grant

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

B. F. Skinner

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Beth Walters

We made it interesting. That's what we have a tendency to do, whether we need to or not.

Ron Eldard

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.

Imelda May

My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

Ian Mckellen

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

Gale Harold

I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

Gaines Adams

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

Donald Trump

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.