Ad Libs Quotes & Sayings

Animals in children's literature always have a soul life because children perceive animals as having souls. — Linda Bender

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had — Samuel Johnson

I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs. — Vin Scully

I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call the ad libs - that just comes out of my head. That's not thought out at all. I have the verses and the choruses, and then after that it's total improvisation. — Daryl Hall

The official line is that, after the war, women couldn't wait to leave the offices and assembly lines and government agencies. But the real story was that the economy couldn't have men coming home without women going home, not unless it wanted a lot of unemployed vets. So the problem became unemployed women. "How you gonna keep us down on the farm after we've seen the world,"' she ad-libs to the old World War I tune. 'Enter the women's magazines, and cookbook publishers, and all these advertising agencies carrying on about the scourge of germs in the toilet bowl, and scuffs on the kitchen floor, and, my favorite, house B.O. Enter chicken hash that takes two and a half hours to prepare. I can just hear them sitting around the conference tables. 'That'll keep the gals out of trouble. — Ellen Feldman

In football, the good thing is things can change in a second. — Didier Drogba

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. — Bil Keane

A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage, and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show. — Jeff Dunham

Can't nobody do what Fetty Wap does. So when I go to the studio, it may be four to five hours max, probably three days out the week. I used to go to the studio for 10 to 15 hours, and I would do five to 10 songs. Now I go for four to five hours and I do, like, 15 to 20 songs. I'm an ad lib guy. Most people know me for my ad libs. — Fetty Wap

A building is not a sentence, which in principle has the ability to match and express a thought closely. It is not linear, like language. Compared to the fluidity of words, a building is atrociously clumsy, but it can be lived and inhabited as books cannot be. — Rowan Moore

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance? — Michelle Paver

And he now knew with certainty that the world was hollowed of its wonder by knowledge and travel, that when one stripped away the mysteries, its dimensions collapsed rather than bloomed. Of course, the world was a much more sophisticated place to him now than it had been when he was a child, but it was also far simpler. Everywhere
men grasped and grasped, as though the titles "king," "shriah," and "grandmaster" were simply masks worn by the same hungry animal. Avarice, it seemed to him, was the world's only dimension. — R. Scott Bakker

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. — Lord Byron

Tonight the thoughts of the dead are turning back to the earth. — Joe Bousquet

For more details about the Curies especially, see Sheilla Jones's wonderful book The Quantum Ten, an account of the surprisingly contentious and fractious early days of quantum mechanics, circa 1925. — Sam Kean

There was a quality of loneliness to her that comes when your only friend walks away and you don't know why and there's no one else and never will be. A left-behind look. — Robert Crais

What a cool name. Where'd you get it?"
"I've always had it. — Marie Landry

I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs. — Ricky Jay

You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow. — Salli Richardson