Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Pierce

Kelsey Grammer is wickedly funny. He's like an 8-year-old child. He's always doing pranks, and we have a great time.

Rob McKittrick

He is that guy in the movie. He is that funny guy who can get in your grill, and be funny about it. He's a lot more interesting in person than you usually see on the screen.

Trevor Noah

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

Taylor Hawkins

Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

Shaquille O'Neal

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

Maddie Ziegler

I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.

Seth Rogen

I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

Carl Jung

Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of goofing off. Because if not, how boring would that be?

Mary-Kate Olsen

I run around my house naked with heels all the time. It's so funny.

Michel Alaby

He said he greatly appreciated having had the opportunity of visiting the Chamber.

Richard Wagenaar

It is gone. It is literally leveled in places. The power of the surge in this storm was greatly underestimated.

William Gilbert

He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an Englishman!

Bobbie Williams

That's one contribution to this team that's greatly appreciated. Management has seen the steps that we need and they're making them. I know our linebackers will be happy.

Paul Wolfowitz

That kind of participation in decision-making at the local level greatly helps the development process.

John Greene

For many years, the Taft name in Ohio has been greatly respected. The Tafts were men of sober and conservative temperament. They were somewhat seen as stodgy, but they were men of principle and integrity.

Tom Daniels

It's a tool at this point with a lot of potential. There's really not a large number of greatly successful programs.

Adam Ereli

We respect the Swiss justice system, but we would have greatly preferred that he be extradited here.

Tom Rath

The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Pat Metheny

The chorused thing, I would have to say I was the first to use extensively in jazz, and that seemed to have influenced a lot of other guys.

Liv Warfield

Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.

Joan Maloney

They didn't want to be influenced in any way; the work has to stand alone.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

Marcelo Porto

The movement was influenced by the rise of the dollar.

Josh Trank

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

Bryan Robson

I don't think it influenced the game, but the referee should have started the match without them.

Marcia Gay Harden

I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.

Ann Richards

I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the decisiveness of it.

Jerry Hollendorfer

He was a good-looking little colt who had a nice pedigree and he worked fast. We got lucky on the price because he was in the sale with no reserve. I liked him a whole lot more than $30,000, that's for sure.

Michael Brown

He liked to get into a lot of stuff. When I think about him, I think of his smile and his hair.

Neil Diamond

His reputation preceded him, ... But man to man, I just liked him a lot.

Susanna Kearsley

I have seen and really liked the varied movie adaptations of the book, but 'Little Women' has a sprawling, richly tangled story that needs time and space to weave its magic.

Terry Stotts

I really liked the way we competed in the second half. With Michael and Mo out, I was really proud of the way our team competed.

Pat Rice

I really liked how we responded when we were down. We haven't been there and our kids, you weren't sure if they get deer-in-the-headlights type look, and they responded well.

Judy Greer

I really love this character I played called Becky Freeley in a T.V. show called 'Miss Guided'. We only shot seven episodes, and nobody watched it, and it was on for, like, a second, but I really liked that character.

Anita Diament

I'm not a literary writer. I didn't go to whatever school it is or have the mentor you need to get reviewed in the New York Times.

Joanne Kelly

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

Henry Rollins

It's hard to judge literary merit.

Nancy Pearcey

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

Ken Follett

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Pope Francis

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Terry Eagleton

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Terry Eagleton

What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .

Terry Eagleton

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Ted Dexter

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

Simon Doonan

Her style is gorgeous, provocative and ever so slightly deranged.

Ciaran Hinds

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

Kurt Vonnegut

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

Suki Waterhouse

I've always loved slightly ugly shoes. Or even very ugly shoes.

Lykke Li

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

Adam McKay

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

Graham Cluley

What they did was not intentionally malicious. If anything, it was slightly inept.

Michelle Gomez

I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.