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?

Dean Martin

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

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.

D. H. Lawrence

And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses of England with metal thorns, beware! but still more brave and still more rare the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools and rose-briars to strangle the machine.

David Archuleta

I love Sara Bareilles. She's just so clever. I wish I were her. She's so awesome.

David Attenborough

I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.

David Liss

Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite some time and just plain reading fun. M.J. Rose is at the top of her game, and that is saying something.

Curtis Jackson

Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.

Anthony Jeselnik

I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.

Anne Sexton

It would be pleasant to be drunk.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'm drunk but truthful.

Jim Carrey

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I don't get the whole getting drunk thing.

Norman Mailer

You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

Rachel Cohn

Who else would find me at just this moment? First he found me drunk, now he found me cleaning up poo from a barking pony who was about to go into attack mode.

Holly Black

You okay?" Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.

Tarshanda Ferguson

A win is a win, but it was an ugly one. I'm very disappointed on the way that we played. We did not play hard, and we were not focused.

Erma Bombeck

Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever.

J. K. Rowling

I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute?

Robert Trout

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

Margo Timmins

When we do get to the point where things aren't good, we know how to smarten up and fix it before it gets ugly.

Neil Cavuto

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

Eli Wallach

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

Darrell Royal

Old ugly is better than old nothin'