Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwayne Johnson

Sweet cream on an ice cream sandwich!

Dean Martin

I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant'.

Chuck Palahniuk

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

Christopher Walken

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

Christopher Walken

I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.

Christopher Walken

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

Christopher Walken

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

Christopher Walken

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

Christopher Meloni

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Aleister Crowley

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

Alberto Moravia

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

Alberto Manguel

Life happened because I turned the pages.

Albert Einstein

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Albert Einstein

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Albert Einstein

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Albert Einstein

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Albert Einstein

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

A. A. Milne

I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh. "I wish I were there to be doing it, too.

Billy Graham

I wish I'd watched less TV.

Clark Gregg

When I was backstage at Comic-Con, about to go out and do the panel for Thor, and Joss Whedon ran up and introduced himself, I already almost passed out, right then. And then, he said, "I've been meaning to call you. You have a big part in The Avengers. Can we introduce you as part of the cast?" It was pretty Make-A-Wish Foundation. I was pretty sure I was dying and nobody had told me yet.

Colin Cunningham

Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.

Dan Fogelberg

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing

Dan Fogelberg

I wish I had more time to sit down and be a little bit more normal.

Conan O'Brien

Trump said that he hoped bin Laden suffered a lot. It looks like he got his wish, because the CIA said bin Laden spent his last hour watching 'Celebrity Apprentice.'

Dwight Howard

I've decided to become a member of the Houston Rockets. I feel it's the best place for me and I am excited about joining the Rockets and I'm looking forward to a great season. I want to thank the fans in Los Angeles and wish them the best.