Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

Barbara Kingsolver

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Margaret Geller

There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.

April Gornik

Of course we humans have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

April Winchell

I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

Barbara Corcoran

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

Better a bald head than none at all.

Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.

Brian Kernighan

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

Brian Andreas

You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.

Brendan Behan

That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.

Brendan Behan

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

Brendan Behan

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

Brendan Behan

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Brendan Behan

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

Brad Pitt

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

Jamie Foxx

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

Kellan Lutz

See, I don't really go after girls. Most of the girlfriends I've had have come after me. So it's really funny when girls get offended because I don't hit on them.

Kenneth Branagh

It's funny to be in rooms where you were originally referred to as 'The Shakespeare Guy' and to suddenly be in the position where you're 'The Blockbuster Guy.' That's a pretty unusual turnabout, I must say.

Kiersey Clemons

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

Kurt Angle

I love doing funny promos like the ones I did wrestling Rey Mysterio.

We've been in every game. We're just a funny team right now. We've got the players. All we have to do is stop making errors.

Charles Evers

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

Charles Bukowski

I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions.

Charles Bukowski

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Sydney Smith

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

Molly Antopol

When I'm writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me - they're responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I'm in, and I think about their responses constantly.

James Howe

When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny.

When I die, I want it to say 'Short and Funny' on my tombstone.

Alan Ruck

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.

Thomas Haden Church

But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie.