Clever Quips Quotes & Sayings

People think "The Office" was improvised, but it's all on the page. We do that because what we found is that in the early days of "The Office," we went in with it sort of 80 percent scripted and we did some things and then we improv'd and we did - you know, and it gets a laugh on the floor because it's the first time they've heard it. — Ricky Gervais

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll. — Eddie Van Halen

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene. — Steve Schirripa

Music is pretty much all I do. — Daron Malakian

My job is to let everybody know what I stand for and to let my light shine. I want to show others the way I live so that hopefully they follow. I can also tell about my experiences as a Christian so that I may help bring others to Christ. — LaDainian Tomlinson

To pray is to open oneself completely, intimately, into the Presence that is beyond our ability to name. — Pat Schneider

The luminosity below me seemed confined directly to the area to be lighted; there was no diffusion of light upward or beyond the limits the lamps were designed to light. This was effected, I was told, by lamps designed upon principles resulting from ages of investigation of the properties of light waves and the laws governing them which permit Barsoomian scientists to confine and control light as we confine and control matter. The light waves leave the lamp, pass along a prescribed circuit and return to the lamp. There is no waste nor, strange this seemed to me, are there any dense shadows when lights are properly installed and adjusted, for the waves in passing around objects to return to the lamp, illuminate all sides of them. The — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Conan O'Brien's show was speaking to a massive and young audience, and he would put us in weekly bits on Late Night. — Amy Poehler

Why does my heart pump faster when we're close? How is it you do that to me? — Jus Accardo

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid. — Maggie Stiefvater

She bid me to look out on the lawn at the leper girls who were running on lame feet, playing croquet with crippled hands.
"There is beauty," she said, "in the least beautiful of things. — Alan Brennert