Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rory Bremner

Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland where you rarely get more than 40% turnout at the polls. There's a big disconnect there, and I think comedians bridge that gap.

Erick Dampier

That's what comedians do, comedians talk a lot. I laugh at it, too. He's never hung out with me. I don't even know him. So I can say anything about him, and he can say anything about me.

Erick Dampier

That's what comedians do. Comedians talk a lot.

Julie Brown

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

Greg Behrendt

I was always funny, but I wasn't a great musician, and I wanted to be a musician way more than I wanted to be a comic. I just didn't think comedians were cool when I was a kid.

Trevor Noah

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

Keke Palmer

Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think.

Stephen Hess

Had this been handled expeditiously, quickly, it might have been a story on the style page, or limited to the late night comedians and the cartoonists. There's simply no question they fumbled this one.

David Banner

He looked better than he ever looked to me. But he's the one who decides whether he can look at himself in the daytime. The one thing you have to understand about comedians is, the more they make people smile, the more pain that they usually feel inside.

Steve Clarke

Remember, it's the judge who decides the sentence.

Joe Torre

I think he's going to be an outstanding manager when he decides to do that and the opportunity comes to him,

M. Wolfe

It all depends on what Todd decides to do.

Melanie Mumbulo

It depends on the day. One day, we look very good and the next day, I'm going, 'Oh my gosh!' We're very good, but it depends on which team decides to show up. I have a wide range of talent and ages, from seniors to eighth-graders.

Noam Chomsky

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can't explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

Bill Richardson

Here's my hope, ... If OPEC meets and decides to increase production at a sizable level, late spring, early summer you will see a gradual decrease in gasoline and diesel prices.

Gary Bettman

If an official puts his whistle away, they should put the official away for the rest of the playoffs. How long you work in the playoffs is discretionary, and that depends on how well you're working. And if a guy decides he's putting the whistle away, then he's done.

Darren Johnson

For whatever reason he opened up that match and he destroyed the guy. When he decides to shoot, it usually pays off with points.

Emyr Parry

If that means that the AU decides that ... it wants to move this toward the UN, we are going to have to explore options like that.

Richard Bentley

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself

Dave Bristow

The 19-year-old turned himself in after we got in touch with him.

Mark Peterson

I watched the way he prepared himself before games. Before I saw Colton I never went to the outfield before to long toss or run before games. Now, I have my own routine before I pitch.

David Patterson

I think he should have won the Nobel Prize. I don't know why he didn't. He was sort of a shy person who didn't promote himself outside the scientific community. He would rather work in the lab.

Five Live

I think he's a centre-half but we know he can play in that position, so I think he's done himself a lot of good.

Bob Bradley

I still think it will happen. I think this was a little setback but there's no reason why he can't push himself forward.

Bobby Cox

Jonathan has come a long way since he was a little teenager. He's made himself into a real nice player.

Chris Smith

John's been preparing himself for this role for the last three years. This is his time to shine. He's really impressed us with his work ethic. He's got to make the plays that we know he can.

Mike Trapasso

Justin wasn't trying to overpower people and get strikeouts. He had to stay within himself and learned that.

Joe Godinho

Parker looked real sharp and was real aggressive.

Liz Walton

Some of these wonderful little stops were not things that we looked for the same way.

Chad Johnson

Our press looked very good. At times it seemed like we could turn it on when we wanted to and be up by 20.

Fernando Pisani

We never looked at it like that. We just said, 'Let's keep playing like we're playing.' We played a patient game.

Mike Snyder

We never looked at aerial or ownership maps. I do that on purpose because I don't want to know. I don't want to be influenced.

David Gant

I whipped them all. They looked like grasshoppers.

Wendy Hall

I think they looked like they had a little doubt. They looked a little lethargic at times.

Roy Blumberg

I think they're probably somewhat disappointed. They probably looked at their portfolio and said, I didn't do as well as the Dow. I made money, but I'm kind of disappointed.

Rick Adelman

I think the Spurs are going to play the same no matter who's out there. When I looked at the tape, I thought it's possible they'll send a message and (upgrade) it to a flagrant foul, but I had no idea they would suspend him.

Matt Birk

Playing with pain is part of the game,

Carol Kurdell

Really to me it is the most sensible way to do this as painful as it is.

Lindsey Kildow

I'm in a lot of pain. I just need to go rest.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Here it comes," she said with an expression of pure bliss. "Drug rush ... any moment now ... the surge of warmth ... bye-bye, Mr. Pain..." "Vee-" "Knock, knock." "This is really important-" "Knock, knock." "It's about Elliot-" "Knock, knoooock," she said in a singsong voice. I sighed. "Who's there?" "Boo." "Boo who?" "Boo-hoo, somebody's crying, and it's not me!" She broke into hysterical laughter.

Bill Crawford

Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

Bill Engvall

I believe pain is nature's way of saying, 'You're still alive, and life sucks.'

Bill Cosby

It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

Bhagat Singh

We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.

C. S. Lewis

In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Andy Fisher

Our understanding is that it is not yet in place.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Shorten

I think they understand that what's being done is in their interests.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Charles Jackson

I think a lot of us don't understand circumstantial evidence.

Cervantes Saavedra

It is not the hand, but the understanding of a man, that may be said to write

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

Vince Young

Just interview. I don't feel like I have to show a lot. I think they understand me, have been watching me for a long time.

Sherry Scarberry

Someone has to be there with him 24/7, whether it be me or Robbie.

Scott McCallum

I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.