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.

Carl Sagan

Nobody listens to mathematicians.

Bertrand Russell

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

Bertrand Russell

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing exactly, then you can be safe in inferring that you are speaking to an inexact man.

Reggie Evans

That was all (garbage) because all them young guys, they play (center). I play (power forward). Do the math on that. That was just more (garbage).

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

William Shakespeare

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.

William Booth

If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

David Krumholtz

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

David Graeber

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

William Booth

If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do.

Carl Sagan

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

Alan Watts

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

Charles Hermite

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Alvin E. Roth

I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

Clive Granger

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Anaxagoras

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.