Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cyrano de Bergerac

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.

Colin Quinn

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

We will have to work within the budget.

Danai Gurira

Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.

David Karp

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Richard M. Nixon

I would have made a good pope.

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

William Shakespeare

Muster your wits; stand in your own defence...

William Shakespeare

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Ernest Rutherford

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

Christopher Hitchens

Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing remarks (which I amended when I read Anthony Powell's matter-of-fact observation that teasing is an unfailing sign of misery within) and as is my very pronounced impatience. The struggle, therefore, is to try and cultivate the virtuous side of these shortcomings: to be a genial host while only slightly whiffled, for example, or to be witty at the expense of one's own weaknesses instead of those of other people.

Mindy Kaling

I have a goofy side that impacts my clothing a lot. To that end, I love witty, colorful, prints.

Irvin S. Cobb

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Irvin S. Cobb

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Irvin S. Cobb

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed

Gloria Steinem

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

Gloria Steinem

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Harry S Truman

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

J. K. Rowling

Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.

J. K. Rowling

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

Paul Erdos

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

Matt Groening

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.

Oscar Wilde

I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

Psy

In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.

Prem Rawat

What you are looking for is within you

Rachel Joyce

It was not a life, if lived without love.

Newt Gingrich

Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

Giacomo Casanova

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.