Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

Jillian Michaels

Many different factors make up a fitness phenomenon, but the most critical are a sense of community, a ton of fun, a sense of accomplishment, and an empowering component that makes people feel they can become or do anything they want.

Groucho Marx

John you say you met in an elevator. Was the elevator going up at the time, or down? This is very important, for going down in an elevator one always has that sinking feeling and for all I know you may have this confused with love. If you were going up, it is clearly a case of love at first sight...

Groucho Marx

Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week.

Groucho Marx

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

Groucho Marx

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

Groucho Marx

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

Groucho Marx

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Groucho Marx

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Groucho Marx

I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

Groucho Marx

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Groucho Marx

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Groucho Marx

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

Groucho Marx

I cannot say that I don't disagree with you.

Graham Greene

Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.

Halle Berry

When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.

Gregory Maguire

You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-

Ian McLagan

We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.

Ian Bogost

The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that didn't come from you. It was about the other thing - the thing you were experiencing, or the people you were with, or the mechanism you were operating, or whatever it might be.

Ian Bogost

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

Harold Prince

When I was a producer, the fun of the show was waking up with a hit and enjoying the period after the show opens. The fun of a director stops the day it opens. No matter if it's a success or a failure, it's not a whole lot of fun anymore.

Jim Davis

When all else fails, look cute.

Glen Hansard

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. Like it's a collection of your diary entries and you pick which one's gonna make the most sense together and you put out a record and you sort of live it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.

Frank Zappa

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

Frank Zappa

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.

Honore de Balzac

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Jack Paar

Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

Iris Dement

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

Gloria Swanson

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

Iyanla Vanzant

What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun?

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.