![The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-americans-who-are-the-most-efficient-people-on-the-earth-have-carried-phra.jpg)
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funny great
Kelsey Grammer is wickedly funny. He's like an 8-year-old child. He's always doing pranks, and we have a great time. David Pierce
funny guy
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. Rob McKittrick
funny stage
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. Trevor Noah
funny life
Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble. Taylor Hawkins
funny time
Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural. Shaquille O'Neal
funny imitate
I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious. Maddie Ziegler
funny good implies level shape vanity wants
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. Seth Rogen
funny happens hope people
I'd like to hope that years from now people can look at the reruns...and say 'That is still a really funny show' or 'It's still really sweet.' And if that happens ... I'll be thrilled. David Crane
funny initially interested job worked
He was the one who initially got me interested in the subject. I actually have his job now, so it's funny how that worked out.
reflection degrees our-thoughts
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed. William Whewell
reflection views people
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view? William Shatner
reflection pope instinct
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes. William James
reflection people trying
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives Tracy Kidder
reflection artist years
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante? Robert Schumann
reflection reality mirrors
Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph. Vincent Van Gogh
reflection quiet born
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. Whittaker Chambers
reflection editors doubt
At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction. William Banting
reflection soul fans
Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements. Walter Kirn
giving maybe
I would say it's like Pinehurst but maybe that's giving it too much credit. Jesper Parnevik
giving good greenspan markets reality
Greenspan is giving the markets a reality check. Good for him. David Jones
giving inside needed points willing
He's a force. We were willing to give up some inside points as long as we were not giving up 3-pointers. We did all that we needed to do to win.
giving school support today
Today is about thanking them for what they're doing in advance, giving them the support they need to go through the school year. Jeanine Pirro
giving feelings needs
One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look. Ryan Kwanten
giving-up i-wont-give-up one-thing
One thing I won't do: I won't give up on love. Ryan Lochte
giving advice world
The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess. Russell Baker
giving-up forever would-be
Music comes out of me most naturally and would be the hardest to give up forever. Tyler Hilton
giving-up dont-give-up people
If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today. Tyler Oakley