Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane McGonigal

Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.

Jane Pauley

This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

Etgar Keret

I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.

Ethan Hawke

Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do to fulfill the audience's expectations, but inside that, you have complete freedom to talk about whatever you want. Who wants to see a movie about gun violence in America and class? But, if you set it in this terrifying, fun, roller coaster ride of a movie, you can talk about whatever you want. That's been the game that genre movies play, when they do it well.

Christopher Dodd

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Christian Lacroix

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

Chris Rock

Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies ... a man lie is, "I was at Kevin's house!" A woman lie is like, "It's your baby!"

Chris Rock

I ain't shooting nobody, so call me a faggot. When the war's over, I'll be the faggot with two legs.

Chris Rock

If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! "This is a rap killing. Let's go home!"

Chris Rock

Farrakhan got everybody together for the Million Man March and everything. But Farrakhan don't like the Jews. Which is bugged. I get my hair cut on Dekalb Avenue. I never been in a barbershop and heard a bunch of brothers talking about Jews. Black people don't hate Jews. Black people hate white people! We don't got time to dice white people up into little groups. I hate everybody! I don't care if you just got here. "Hey, I'm Romanian." "You Romanian cracker!"

Chris Rock

You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?

Chris Rock

I was at Michael Jackson's house, and this kid runs out, 'Wait, save me!'

Chris Rock

Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

Chris Rock

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.

Chris Rock

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!

Chris Rock

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

Chris Rock

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

Chris Rock

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

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

Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor.

Groucho Marx

With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.

Groucho Marx

You're a great brother. You give us a heart attack worrying about your heart attack, which you didn't even have the decency to have!

Groucho Marx

My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.

Groucho Marx

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

Groucho Marx

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

Groucho Marx

Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!

Groucho Marx

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

Groucho Marx

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

Groucho Marx

I never go to movies where the hero's tits are bigger than the heroine's.

Groucho Marx

I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.