But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
[When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening… — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck; a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yes, well, I'm not asking you to hide anything. Hiding won't help you. You can't very well hide from a pit, can… — Gregory S. Close Copy Share Image
There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way… — Christopher Lloyd Copy Share Image
Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Soon as I see her walk up in the club, I'm a flirt. Winking eyes at me, when I roll up on… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said: "I want to get my haircut. I say, do you know a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
The message of the United States is not nuclear power. The message of the United States is a spiritual message. It is… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I can only do it if there's humour, wit, comedy and drama. If you can get audiences laughing and then suddenly turn… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever… — M.M. Kaye Copy Share Image
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful… — George Will Copy Share Image
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Theologians and other clerks, You won't understand this book, -- However bright your wits -- If you do not meet it humbly,… — Marguerite Porete Copy Share Image
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Have you seen them?" he asked. Arrow looked at him disinterestedly. Will frowned. Not talking, eh?" he said. "Maybe you're a little… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
![“[When criticized for appearing bare-shouldered Madonna-like at a banquet:] A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap.” quote by Kim Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f95/kim-campbell-17510_appearing_when-criticized-for-appearing-bare-shoul_2447856.png)
![“No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.” quote by Roger Brooke Taney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f29/roger-brooke-taney-72915_consequence_no-doctrine-involving-more-pernicious-co_3016749.png)
