Wordplay Quotes · Page 2

If it wasn't for me, I wouldn't have anybody.

— Rock Cowles

“Why is abbreviation such a long word?”

— Teresa Monachino

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

— Dorothy Parker

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

— Dorothy Parker

When all else fails, go back to bed. Repeat as necessary.

— Rock Cowles

That’s why you call it a budget. You set it and you don’t budge.

— Jennifer Morrison

“Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves”

— Lewis Carroll

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Graham's life is as tense as an overstretched simile.”

— Zane Stumpo

“Letters orchestrated into a song of words create the symphony of a novel.”

— Leslie Austin

“These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.”

— Stefanos Livos

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't push him in.

— Rock Cowles

Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof.…

— Bill Engvall

“Scots from hogtowns or cowtowns work from cockcrow to moondown -- to chop down woodlots, to plow down cornrows.”

— Christian Bök

“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it." [ Women Know Everything! ]”

— Dorothy Parker

“He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.”

— Sara Sheridan

I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that…

— Joe Budden

“Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.”

— Jasper Fforde

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

— Fats Domino

“So one might say that music killed him, that he was felled by music. It's a theory. String theory.”

— Emma Richler

We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes,…

— Milton William Cooper

One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story,…

— St. Vincent

“The phrase, ‘dollars to donuts’ came suddenly to mind. Because of the last several decades of hyperinflation, the phrase has been replaced…

— Daniel Thorman

“O, gentle Bard, if thou couldst but glimpse our digital age! We set words in light called ‘blogs,’ Which are, alas, neither…

— Stewart Stafford

It wouldn't be nearly as much fun if everyone walked a mile in my shoes. There'd be like arms and legs, peckers…

— Rock Cowles

“The place suggested a convent with the modern improvements—an asylum in which privacy, though unbroken, might be not quite identical with privation,…

— Henry James

What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!’ ‘Why should…

— Lewis Carroll

“Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language…

— Naomi Wolf

...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some…

— E. Lockhart

“We rarely get the chance to see things anew. I remember a Latin translation that caused me to fail an exam at…

— Olivia Sudjic

“I dunno." She sat on the bench and hugged the robe like a pillow. "I still think that Brett guy is cute."…

— Anonymous

Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear…

— Zhuangzi

“I have mentioned my patient Harvey, but I have failed to properly discuss him and the odd coincidence, or almost co-incidence, of…

— Rivka Galchen

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

— Dorothy Parker

“Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”

— Dorothy Parker

If women were created from ribs then why do they taste like fish?

— Rock Cowles

Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.

— Lysa TerKeurst

Ahh, wordplay, Olubowale my first name. I think Im Koko B. Ware, you just a bird babe.

— Wale

The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.

— Paul Scherrer

Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.

— Groucho Marx