Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yakov Smirnoff

I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

Imelda May

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

Idina Menzel

I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

Ian Frazier

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Gaines Adams

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Constance Wu

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Chris Bohjalian

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Paula Garces

I am a big, big geek at heart and a Sci-fi fan. And I love the Comic-Cons.

Jon Cryer

I would always have been the geek who's your friend. I will never be the dark guy with a sensitive side, as much as I yearn to be.

Louis Navellier

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

John Hughes

A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked up as if there were a lot of them at every school - and there aren't. Maybe two. There are many more geeks. A geek is a guy who has everything going for him, but he's just too young. He's got the software, but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

Erica Cerra

I love my sci-fi. I love my fantasy. Yeah! I can say it. I'm a geek. I'm a geek and I'm a proud geek!

Bridgit Mendler

Cool is overrated. Be a geek for what you Love

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.

William Zabka

I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.

John Tesh

I was a geek in high school. I was about the same height I am now, a 6-foot-6 15-year-old with braces, smelling of Clearasil. The only way out was to get into a rock band. ... By the end, I was a rock and roll keyboardist who smelled of Clearasil.

Cheryl Richardson

If it's not an absolute YES, it's a NO

Arthur Rimbaud

. . . be absolute moderne.

Suzanne Fields

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

Auguste Comte

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

Alfred Stieglitz

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

D. H. Lawrence

Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

Berkeley Breathed

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

Gustav Heinemann

Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda.

Colleen Dolan

They're the ones drawing a line in the sand as to what the absolutes are. We've already brought in consultants to help with some of this stuff. Once (the investigators) give their response, once we have a more defined conversation with DCFS, we'll be in a better position to make that decision.