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.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Mark Twain

The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme

Gad Elmaleh

I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

David Steinberg

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

Richard Lewis

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

Milos Forman

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

Peter Segal

I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.

Matt Kennedy

Merrick had a sense of humor and could joke about his condition.

Ed Peterson

I think this is a legislative sense of humor the rest of us don't appreciate.

Mark Doren

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Victor LaValle

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

Stephen Breyer

I would guess my law clerks could meet (that standard) every day,

John Luke

Front desk clerks at Hilton are generally empowered to listen to any reasonable request. We probably wouldn't treat you to a $500 dinner for two, but if you're walked from the New York Hilton and Towers, we might take you over in our limo to a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Brian Frosh

The real issue at this point is Joe Steffen confirmed what they have denied all the way through this, which is they were firing file clerks and secretaries to make room for people they wanted to get jobs for, ... They were using those low-level jobs as patronage.

Albert Einstein

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks,

Dana Williams

We've been working as fast as we can since Feb. 1. But it's a 30- to 60-day process. I know the clerks are under a lot of pressure. This has just been perfect storm situation.

Sugata Mitra

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore.

Ben Beakes

This is exactly why West Virginia has one of the most stringent testing requirements in the nation. The process worked. The county clerks were doing their job. This is exactly why we test the machines.

Hortense Calisher

How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.