Humor Quote by Hope Mirrlees Download Open image ““But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.”” — Hope Mirrlees ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humor Lies Sleep Truth
“Remember, a fact is a fact, no matter how hard the liars amongst you might try hushing it up.” — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
“If the truth is inside, And the form is outside, What is the truth of sleep?” — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
“Why is it you tell me the truth only when you've fallen asleep? It's then that you visit me.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I was discovering a hard truth: There’s no way to catch up on sleep. When it’s gone, it’s gone, and the best you can… — David Van Etten Copy Share Image
“I'm so damn good at lying. It becomes almost second nature when you hide the truth every hour of every day.” — Erin Watt Copy Share Image
“Could the stories that parents tell children to lull them to sleep actually be true?” — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“And the best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to give a listener pause.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy. — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“And there were ruined castles covered with ivy - the badge of the old order, clinging to its own; and into the ivy doves… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait that, probably,… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“Stop a minute, Ambrose!" interrupted Master Nathaniel. "I've got a sudden silly whim that we should take an oath I must have read when… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“...it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“As Master Nathaniel jogged leisurely along his thoughts turned to the Farmer Gibberty, who many a time must have jogged along this path, in… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“...it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“Besides, there was that foolish feeling of his that reality was not solid, and that facts were only plastic toys; or, rather, that they… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“It was not so much a modification of the darkness, as a sigh of relief, a slight relaxing of tension, so that one felt… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy. — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“...I haven't guessed where your shirt is from yet Bane, but I don't think it'll matter once it's underwater!' Tristan looked at Bane questioningly.… — S.K. Munt Copy Share Image
“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.” — Markus Herz Copy Share Image
“Not wise, perhaps, to be rude to the Pope's favorite son, but my viper tongue still required a fool now and then on which… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
“ “Do Southerners laugh at different things than Northerners do? Yes, I say--Northerners.” Roy Blount, Jr., Roy Blount’s Book of Southern Humor” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
