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.

Yo-Yo Ma

My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.

Mardy Fish

That was a lucky shot for sure. I don't practice that, but I don't shy away from that if it happens in practice.

Stella McCartney

If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance.

Antonio Daniels

Tim and the Spurs are going to the Virgin Islands. Tim said he had nothing to do with it. Yeah right, he just happens to be from the islands. But hey, Richmond will be just fine. We're there to work anyway.

Jerry Howard

Most new home builders, if something happens in the first year, are more than willing to come back and make determinations and see that it's repaired.

Mary Bowen

Who knows what happens to those kinds of traditions. Now, I don't even have the pictures of my memories.

Bucky Covington

When that happens I say just pick one that speaks to you. Pick one that runs through your bones, one that makes you move. That's how I try to pick them.

Felipe Alou

When teams are losing, things happen. It happens to the manager, to the coaches, to the players, to anybody. That kind of stuff doesn't happen when teams are winning.

Mike Tamsin

When something like that happens you know something is going to go your way.

Adam Burish

He doesn't say anything. He just smiles at them, laughs and lines back up.

Kevin McDonald

So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high voices. That was very important to us.

Jerry Seinfeld

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

Steven Schreibman

We're going for big laughs and big talk value.

Jean Richter

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much

Jean Paul

No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

Arielle Kebbel

I want someone who can respectfully challenge me. I know what I believe, so there's no point in my taking on a relationship with someone who thinks like me or laughs at what I laugh at. I enjoy being with someone who can offer me the opposite.

J. Taylor

They had to remove all the nerves on the right side of my face, so when I smile, only the left side works. My wife laughs at me. She tells me not to smile.

Susan Stroman

This movie is like a little life raft for him. He laughs every time he comes to see it.

Roy Moore

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

Scott Weiss

I don't like sweating the details, and I'm pretty disorganized. To be a better leader, I need to stay on top of these shortcomings, and being reminded really helps.

Larry Ellison

Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

Rich Galen

What it reminded me of the other day is 'Baghdad Bob' saying there are no Americans at the airport.

Rabih Alameddine

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

CeeLo Green

My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.

S. Walker

I keep being reminded about how tough the remainder of our schedule is. But we just need to worry about us, not about who we're going to play.

Rhys Ifans

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

Greg Walker

It wasn't so much what we told him. We just reminded him of some things that he had done in the past.

John Beilein

Today's win was much-needed before the road trip. I can't really say I am comfortable now. I think our schedule has helped.

Willie McGinest

We have a long road to go. We are not worried about any records. Right now we are just worried about getting better.

George Philpott

We got off to a rough start. In the first event, the medley relay, we were disqualified, and with that long day on the road we just didn't get some of the times we wanted.

Ron Gettelfinger

We have not got down the road that far,

Jason Forte

We haven't had a road win in a while.

Steve Haag

We put 58 units on the road before it even started and we'll keep them going all day.

Jerry Stackhouse

We can't be satisfied with just tying up the series with this win. We're going to probably see this team somewhere down the road in the playoffs.

Harry Reid

Two years ago, when we went into Afghanistan, there wasn't' even a working road grader in the whole country.

Steve Davies

I wouldn't want to be out on the rural roads tonight up there.

Hasso Plattner

Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.

Pete Jeffries

whatever was said in the room, stays in the room.

George Coleman

He waves and that's about it. He stays to himself.

Mark Rey

We want everyone to be comfortable with every half-acre that stays on the list.

Leonardo da Vinci

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Gordon Strachan

Naka is the same in that he stays on to practice. I just want him to keep doing what he does.

Alice Lowe

I think when a couple stays together, it's because of compromises they've both made.

Richard Barber

But it stays within bounds, and that's an unusual system,

Joe Frazier

He's good. I think he's still a young man. If he stays here and works with us on the basics, we'll make him better than good.