Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diana Wynne Jones

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

Deirdre O'Kane

Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

Bob Dylan

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

Bill Cosby

If you can find humour in anything, you can survive it

LeRoy Neiman

You can't take yourself too seriously.

Michelle Gomez

I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.

Ken Livingstone

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

Jon Stewart

Thus, I've created humour.

Sylvester Stallone

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.

Denise Richards

It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie.

David Baldwin

We are keeping it a local, Boise company. This is the plan.

Alex McLeish

We are just looking at keeping the momentum going with Ronald,

Ally Stroup

We're doing really well. We're keeping our possessions and having patience before taking a shot.

Daniel Craig

I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.

Eric Hemmendinger

We can stand up and tell people they ought to be keeping up-to-date with patches, but in the real world, that's not particularly useful advice. There are just so many of them.

Marco Rubio

When I am the president of the United States of America, we don't know who you are, and we don't know why you're trying to come to the United States, you are not going to get in, because the radical threat that we now face from ISIS is extraordinary and unprecedented and when I'm president, we are keeping ISIS out of America.

Don Cox

We were having a lot of trouble keeping up with a large quantity of returns with this system.

Jay Wright

We were getting stops and keeping it out of Quincy's hands. And those shots turned into fast-break opportunities for us.

Clive Thompson

I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they're unique, but because they've been so artfully made that I couldn't imagine doing it better myself.

Bel Powley

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Tom Paulin

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

Farooq Abdullah

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

Nicola Sturgeon

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Lemuel K. Washburn

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

Clementa C. Pinckney

In the community, in the African-American community, one person ought to say something, and that is the minister. The minister is paid by the people. He doesn't work for a big company. He doesn't represent a particular special interest.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

Jackie Speier

We must start to prepare for a warming world in the same way that we prepare for the possibility of terrorism - by making sure our infrastructure is secure and by working to minimize threats as much as possible.

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Ron Polk

We had nearly as many hits, but they put them together. That's what it's all about. We just spaced ours out.

Andy Duncan

We had nearly 100%of people saying they were proud to work at C4 and more than 95% said we were going in the right direction. It's staggering,

Gerard Mestrallet

We had already made a lot of progress on the project. It was nearly finished.

Romola Garai

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

Tony Prentice

Our whole team wrestled really solid. It was a tough tournament. There were state placers in nearly every weight class.

Roger Cox

The announcement you have today is not nearly enough. It's the tip of the iceberg.

Joe Adams

Steroids are not really needed, ... You can get nearly the same results through training.

Kristen Holloway

My nights and weekends are nearly all spent on the troops.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am a writer. Therefore. I am not sane.

John Updike

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Ian Bogost

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

A. J. Liebling

No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Rebecca Hall

No family is sane, is it?

Robert Bloch

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

Jacque Fresco

If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?

Karrie Webb

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

Miranda Hart

As a woman, it seems you can't just be a comedian; you're always classed as something else, too, whether that's 'beautiful,' 'pint-sized,' 'larger-than-life' or in my case, 'Hattie Jacques-esque,' 'the giraffe,' 'big.'

Oscar Sanchez

Webb seems to be up to its usual games.

Gail Carriger

It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

Miranda Lambert

We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Liz Vassey

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Derek Jeter

Those are situations we need to come through in. Those are big. This time of year, especially, you've got to take advantage.

Carl Jung

There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.

Todd Clapper

In those special situations we were not where we wanted to be.

Bobby Bowden

This is one of those situations where we don't have a lot of experience. But they sure are talented.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Frank Verrastro

Most of these supply situations are fraught with some kind of peril.

Levance Fields

We've been in situations like the one we had (Sunday). Down the stretch, they made more plays.

Clint Eastwood

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Nancy Grace

Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

Noreena Hertz

If somebody tweets 'I like Coca-Cola,' does that mean that they're actually going to buy Coca-Cola? One can? Two cans? Three cans? If they retweet someone else's Tweet, does that mean they're going to buy it?

Pete Rose

No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.

Sevyn Streeter

No matter what you go through, if it's the truth, 9 times out of 10, somebody else has been through the same thing or is currently going through the same thing.

Adam Mansbach

As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.

Adriana Lima

I'm not going to fly a million miles with somebody I don't know.

Lori Allain

Where are you going to find somebody who doesn't know us in Hernando County?

Samantha Fox

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

Joe Farmer

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Mike Lynch

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.

Johnny Christ

If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while.

Ayn Rand

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Ben Howland

I was uncomfortable standing there. I'm wanting water after water out of the machine.

Christina Milian

There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.

Jeff Ross

Charlie Sheen is to stand-up what Larry Flynt is to standing up.

Barbara Corcoran

No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.

Anna Held

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Marvin Sapp

The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children.

Melinda Shiraki

We usually end up crying. He tells us not to be scared.

Luis Suarez

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

Jon Phillips

I was not trying to be nosy or anything, but perspiration just tells you something.

Joan Rankin

When someone tells me how they feel when they see something I've done and they want to live with it, that's the best,

Judd Gregg

Whatever my wife tells me to do with it,

Kenny Lofton

He tells guys, 'Go out there and play hard, but have fun,'

Barry O'Farrell

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.

Trip Adler

We actually determine whether the book is read and make payments to the publisher based on that.

Karlie Kloss

Whether running, biking, swimming, or dancing, I just like to always be on the move.

Kevin Smith

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.

Lucy Hawking

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Vanessa Hudgens

You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.