“Am I afraid of ghosts? My life experience has taught me to be much more afraid of what a human is capable… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt.… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
I write. I have read a great deal. I enjoy books. I like the wit of languages. Even French I like. I… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the… — Vince Aletti Copy Share Image
A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People… — Kelli Swofford Nielsen Copy Share Image
You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are… — Joan Blondell Copy Share Image
“You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair… — Robert Henryson Copy Share Image
Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he's so joyous and… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
And I just hope that I'm forgiven for carin bout how they livin and loanin a little money and keepin em outta… — Drake Copy Share Image
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What do those of us who aren't tall, flawlessly sculpted adolescents do? Answer: Console ourselves with how relative beauty can be... Thank… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight.… — Richard Roeper Copy Share Image
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn't just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo… — Tim Federle Copy Share Image
It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is… — Joan Lowery Nixon Copy Share Image
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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