Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristophanes

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Charles Bukowski

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?

Daniel Kahneman

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

Bobby Robson

We haven't paid 25 million and 10 million and all the dazzling figures you see being banded about for strikers at the moment. We've been very clever and frugal in our dealings. He's not cheap, he's not for nothing, but we're very happy with the deal.

Tony Randall

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

Rick Riordan

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The throne we honour is the people's choice.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Sherman Alexie

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

Mark Steyn

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

Peggy Noonan

What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition.

Marlon Wayans

I always feel that the best roles are written for white guys.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

Billy Carter

The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.

Conrad Aiken

I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a note. But I learned to play the piano and became pretty skillful at improvisation, especially after a drop or two.

Alice Walker

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

Amy Schumer

I feel very comfortable in my own skin. When someone makes jokes about me being heavy, it makes me mad. It's not true. I'm right where I should be.

Anthony Burgess

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Ann Romney

I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!

Anacreon

I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.

Thomas Kyd

As I am never better than when I am mad; then methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.

Susanna Clarke

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.