Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agatha Christie

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Jan Morris

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

Charles Caleb Colton

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

Joseph C. Lincoln

At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road.

Frank Muir

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humour is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Mike Butcher

You give them recommendations. You throw different angles at them where, hopefully, they can get something out of it.

Nigel Kneale

Certainly, it isn't a ghost story where people go into a haunted house. There have been two or three made on that basis, but I didn't want to do that.

Agatha Christie

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

Joseph Addison

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have here below.

Harry Sinden

He was a gentleman as he's always been.

E. P. Thompson

It is not unknown for gentlemen to come in and purchase two of the same items.

George Bernard Shaw

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

Robert E. Lee

We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.

Troy Polamalu

I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field.

William Shirley

The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!

William Shenstone

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

Robert Walpole

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

Samuel Goldwyn

Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong.

Sylvester Stallone

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

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.

Eric Andre

If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.

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.

Evangeline Lilly

I always wear something slightly masculine.

Judith Butler

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Renee Vivien

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

Gerard Butler

In Scotland, I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America, I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy.

Gloria Steinem

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

Kevin Youkilis

I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.

Dylan Brooks

It was a hobbyist pursuit that served a much narrower niche.

P. T. Barnum

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love.

Richard Peterson

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

Albert Einstein

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

Tom Rath

The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.

Thomas Jefferson

If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.

Umberto Eco

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Truman Capote

The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.

Virginia Woolf

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

Woody Allen

Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.

Woody Allen

What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after-who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.

Woody Allen

I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.

Woody Allen

Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.

Robyn Carr

Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story.

Samuel Johnson

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.