Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Miller

He's liked, but he's not well liked.

Brittany Murphy

I do sarcasm really poorly.

Elbert Hubbard

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

Allan Sloan

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

Ambrose Bierce

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

Stephen Colbert

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving.

Victor Hugo

God was bored by him.

Tom Bergeron

My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that.

Neil Gaiman

The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said, "Challenge her. There's no guarantee she'll play fair, but her kind of thing loves games and challenges.

Barbara Mertz

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Brent Scowcroft

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

Confucius

Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.

Robert Frost

Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.

Robert Benton

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

Rita Rudner

Individuality in dressing is not important to men. If they all look alike it means they haven't made a mistake.

Richard Marshall

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

Richard Madden

I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.

Richard Engel

How can you claim infallibility and claim that in these 114 [drone] strikes there was just one mistake -- one person killed that was a civilian -- and at the same time say, 'Well, we don't really know how many people were killed or who they were, but we know they weren't civilians'? I don't know how you can do that.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Augusten Burroughs

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Brennan Manning

Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter and stammer about God's holiness. We tremble before God's majesty... and yet, we grow squeamish and skittish before God's love.

Billy Blanks

Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me.

Denis Healey

Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

Bruce Lee

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Edmund Burke

The march of the human mind is slow.

Edmund Burke

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.