Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan B. Anthony

Every woman should have a purse of her own.

Dan Quayle

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made

Dan Quayle

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

Dan Quayle

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

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.

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.

Richard M. Nixon

I would have made a good pope.

William Shakespeare

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

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.

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.

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.

Giacomo Casanova

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

Giacomo Casanova

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Glenn Close

Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin.

Jim Butcher

Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

Jessi Klein

Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.

George Herbert

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

Kris Carr

I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't?