Famous Quotes & Sayings

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Umberto Eco

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Truman Capote

The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.

Virginia Woolf

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

Woody Allen

Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.

Woody Allen

What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after-who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.

Woody Allen

I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.

Woody Allen

Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.

William Shenstone

A fool and his words are soon parted.

Rebecca De Mornay

I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.

Reba McEntire

My mama is my best friend. We have fun, we can talk about anything, she always is on my side but really quick to tell me when I'm wrong. That's a true friend. She's loyal, smart, witty and intelligent. She loves family and loves to travel. All the things I love!

Robyn Carr

Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story.

Samuel Johnson

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

William Holden

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

Virginia Woolf

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

Samuel Beckett

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

Samuel Goldwyn

They stayed away in droves.

Samuel Goldwyn

I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.

Samuel Goldwyn

Gentlemen, include me out.

Samuel Goldwyn

Keep a stiff upper chin.

Samuel Goldwyn

Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.

Samuel Goldwyn

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

Samuel Goldwyn

This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.

Samuel Goldwyn

Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.

Samuel Goldwyn

He treats me like the dirt under my feet.

Samuel Goldwyn

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

Samuel Goldwyn

The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.

Samuel Goldwyn

"Yes, but that's our strongest weak point."

Samuel Goldwyn

I paid too much for it, but it's worth it.

Samuel Goldwyn

True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.

Samuel Goldwyn

We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.

Samuel Goldwyn

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP.