Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Asimov

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Ian MacKaye

Totally another bread and circus, when you think about it. That's a Roman concept where the government can do anything, as long as you give the people "bread and circuses." And I'd say this culture right now is similar, as long as people have money, fun, and food, our government can do heinous, heinous things.

Homer

Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.

Geraldine Ferraro

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

J. L. Austin

Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?

J. K. Rowling

Where's the fun without a bit of risk?

J. K. Rowling

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

J. K. Rowling

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

H. L. Mencken

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Geoffrey Zakarian

My agent called me and said, they watched you do Chopped Champions and they thought you'd be good for this competition. What do you think? And I said, well, what do you think? He said he thought it would be great and I said let's do it. When you decide to do this, you don't really think that you're going to win it. I thought it would be fun, good to test my mettle; games are fun like that. Why not? I'll try it.

Jerry Coleman

Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.

Jerry Coleman

Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

Jerry Coleman

Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.

Jerry Coleman

They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe.

Jerry Coleman

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

Jerry Coleman

Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway.

Jerry Coleman

You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.

Jerry Coleman

That big guy, Winfield, at 6'6", can do things only a small man can do.

Jerry Coleman

I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about.

Hunter S. Thompson

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Alfred Hitchcock

Paramount functions practically as a studio setup for him.

Denis Leary

Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I'm not necessarily funny all the time.

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

Samuel Butler

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Milan Hejduk

We are going to the Olympics, so it's going to be fun even though we don't get the break. It's a lifetime experience, so I guess you can't go wrong with the Olympics.

Erma Bombeck

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Reba McEntire

Being sexy is kind of funny to me. You know, I can get kind of spunky or I can get tough, you know, that kind of tough, sexy look. But sexy? No, I don't think so.

Candace Parker

We were having fun just playing, moving the ball, running in transition, and that's when we were at our best.

A. Whitney Brown

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

Adrian Grenier

Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.

Trips were always a blast; he was just a funny guy.

Ron Gardenhire

You know it's fun to see some things happening a little bit. It hasn't been great, we know it's not going to be a perfect situation or scenario because our expectations were one place and we didn't reach them. But you always have to look for positives. You're playing every night and that's what we've been trying to do.

Prince Royce

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.