Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maisie Williams

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

Howard Stern

Saturday Night Live' has ceased to be funny. And for a long time... I've heard a lot of people say this... it's not just me...but that 'Saturday Night Live' is not sort of happening and maybe it's time for an alternative.

Julian Clary

I've nothing funny to say, but thank you,

Anderson Cooper

I see the show. I don't see anything funny about it. It's just me with my family, at home,

Matthew Lillard

Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.

Sidney Madwed

Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Jarome Iginla

That one wasn't so funny because he got hurt.

Michael Showalter

You really have no idea whether or not what you're writing is funny. In stand-up and sketch comedy, you know right away and you can make your changes accordingly.

Barbara Kingsolver

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Andrew Solt

It was the true father of all the variety shows.

Edythe Bagley

It was about 1951. She had written me and said he was very special and he thought she was very special, and I knew it was serious. She said he reminded her of her father and there was no more to say. I looked upon him favorably and was impressed.

Irving Garcia

I used to watch my father play with his friends in Mexico. I loved watching him play.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Ricky Ford

Practicing politics is like professional football. You have to be smart enough to understand the rules and stupid enough to think what you are doing is important.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Barbara Mertz

Money was the manure of politics ...

Benjamin Disraeli

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Bob Dylan

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Martin L. Gross

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Julian Bond

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.