Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edna Ferber

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.

Augustus Hare

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Auguste Rodin

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Ayn Rand

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Ayn Rand

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Carl von Clausewitz

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

Elizabeth I

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Ayn Rand

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Abraham Lincoln

Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

Andrew Marvell

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

Andy Borowitz

It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.

Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

A. J. Liebling

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Adrienne Rich

I feel more helpless with you than without you.

I think you're a witness and a recorder.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.

Anne Lamott

My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.

Annie Baker

I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

D. J. MacHale

Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.

Alexander Pope

I have more zeal than wit.

Dorothy Richardson

Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.

Donna Leon

The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort.

Donald Barthelme

HENRY: Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.

Douglas William Jerrold

Malice blunts the point of wit.

Douglas William Jerrold

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.

Don Marquis

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Dinah Shore

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

Andy Rooney

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.