Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Quayle

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Dan Quayle

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Dan Quayle

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Dan Quayle

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Dan Quayle

If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.

Dan Quayle

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Cynthia Payne

Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it.

Dan Marino

As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.

Conan O'Brien

The U.S. team has swept all the medals in the skeet shooting event. So despite our bad economy, it's nice to know our country has never been safer from an attack of skeets.

Conan O'Brien

An American judo fighter was expelled from the Olympics after testing positive for marijuana. Officials became suspicious when he kept stopping the match and saying, 'What are we fighting for, man?'

Conan O'Brien

The Romneys have a horse competing in the Olympics. Ann Romney's horse failed to win a medal in the dressage event today, which is a shame because if there's one thing that family needs, it's more gold.

Conan O'Brien

It's now come out just before his record-breaking 100-meter dash, gold medalist Usain Bolt ate at McDonald's. Apparently he timed his meal so when the race started he would have exactly 9.63 seconds to get to a toilet.

Conan O'Brien

An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.

Conan O'Brien

If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.

Conan O'Brien

The first thing men notice about a woman is her eyes. Then, when her eyes aren't looking, they notice her breasts.

E. W. Howe

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

E. W. Howe

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

Brian Helgeland

I always think any circumstances can be funny. Not that I'm irresponsible, but when things go wrong, I always come up with a joke or think of something funny to say.

Blair Underwood

So it's a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could.

We have sent our condolences to the people of Pakistan and we are looking at ways of helping Pakistan's relief funds as well.

The party is just one small piece of the larger prevention effort, but it is vital to teach young people that having fun does not need to involve alcohol,

Margaret Cho

This show is a lot funnier and more outrageous. There are lots more jokes.

Orson Scott Card

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Russell Baker

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Matt Birk

We put the fun in dysfunctional, don't we?

Malcolm Forbes

Presence is more than just being there.

Kurt Vonnegut

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

William Shakespeare

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

William Shakespeare

Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)

Karel Capek

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

Karen Armstrong

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.