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Tag Name "Witty" (1030)

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People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
Ellen DeGeneres
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp
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I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.
Annie Baker
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Anne Sullivan Macy
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An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry
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Don't improve it into a flop!
Samuel Goldwyn
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexander
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Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
Marilyn vos Savant
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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
Umberto Eco
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
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I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.
Dylan Moran
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You have delighted us long enough.
Jane Austen
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Only a few things are really important.
Marie Dressler
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My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.
Norm Crosby
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All my friends are funny, witty, fun-loving people. As are my parents, and the people I work with. I get at least a couple of good laughs in every day.
Toks Olagundoye
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If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.
Ann Landers
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The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
Ann Landers
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
Victor Borge
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb Colton
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And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much.
Angelina Jolie
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[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder
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A Hospital is no place to be sick.
Samuel Goldwyn
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When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.
Andy Warhol
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