Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Isaac Asimov

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

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. 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.

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.