Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jill Soloway

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

Wendy Liebman

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

Adam Wainwright

I go in thinking about whatever they'll let me do at the big-league level. You never know what happens. This is a funny game. Obviously, I've always been a starter. I love to start. But I also loved my time in the big leagues, and that's going to come first right now. I'm happy with whatever role they'll let me have at the big-league level.

He was always sweet and funny. If you needed something like a pencil or a piece of paper, he'd always give you one, even if he had to sacrifice his own.

Peter Capaldi

I always thought it was funny that my grandparents had bought a ticket to New York and ended up in Glasgow.

Jim Sheridan

He was very good. Very charismatic, funny, relaxed. I think he could do another movie. And he was able to show vulnerability, totally different from the image in the rap world.

I was so surprised at how informal and funny he was.

Kurt Browning

I was shocked. John Nicks was ... so mean, but he's so funny. I just didn't think he was going to take that role.

She's very kind-hearted and very witty and funny. You watch her play and she has this scowl on her face, but she has those qualities in her. She can make you laugh.

Rick Kaplan

She's an incredibly funny person, no matter what we're discussing.

Angela Ruggiero

She's honest. Yes, she will say anything. I think it's funny, though.

She said, 'I just love the guy in the glasses,' ... 'He's so funny.'

She's just resting in her apartment. Maybe it's the start of a sickness.

She's just funny about accolades, ... She would say, 'I haven't done anything out of the ordinary.'

Herbie Hancock

Oh yeah, the funny thing is that all my pictures in the past were all smiley pictures, and it's only been in recent pictures where I've had some where I don't smile.

Prince William

She had such a young sense of humor. Every single thing that went wrong or was funny for any reason, she laughed herself stupid about it -- it kept us all sane.

She had me in stitches most of the time, while commiserating over the 'joys' of operating a theater. When I heard she had written her own show, I knew it had to be as funny as she is, and wanted the opportunity to work with her again.

Laura Brown

She mentions what a great support he is to her. She did say something funny about how they going shopping together sometimes and he'll be good for two hours, then be like, 'Honey, I gotta have lunch.' Like any man.

Patrick Stump

I have a girlfriend and she hasn't minded, ... She thinks it's funny I have to sing about that stuff.

Jack Warner

I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.

Kurt Cobain

I hate it when people take the things I say and turn them into something sexual. Just because it's funny to them, doesn't mean everyone is going to take it that way. And I don't.

I had often fantasized about running into my ex and his wife. But in those fantasies, I was running over them with a truck.

Jack Whitehall

If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.

Jean Paul

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Jean Paul

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Jim Harrison

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

Jerry Smith

Everyone thinks softball is a girl's game. But you only think that until you get hit with it on a line drive.

Jerry Sloan

In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan. Of course, he would be only 12 years old.

Jerry Seinfeld

Why is commitment such a big problem for a man? I think that for some reason when a man is driving down that freeway of love, the woman he's with is like an exit, but he doesn't want to get off there. He wants to keep driving. And the woman is like, "Look, gas, food, lodging, that's our exit, that's everything we need to be happy... Get off here, now!" But the man is focusing on the sign underneath that says, "Next exit 27 miles," and he thinks, "I can make it."

Jerry Seinfeld

The toughest nights when I was a young, unknown comedian were opening for these real old-time Italian singers. I'm like Grace Jones to them. "This guy is nuts-talking about socks. Where's the wife jokes, where's the fat jokes?"

Jerry Seinfeld

Some of the events in the Olympics don't make sense to me. I don't understand the connection to any reality... Like in the Winter Olympics they have that biathlon that combines cross-country skiing with shooting a gun. How many alpine snipers are into this? Ski, shoot a gun... ski, bang, bang, bang... It's like combining swimming and strangling a guy. Why don't we have that? That makes absolutely as much sense to me. Just put people in the pool at the end of each lane for the swimmers.

Jerry Seinfeld

Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.

Jerry Seinfeld

The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. ‘Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off, I’ve got the toe clippers right here.