Cocktail Napkins Funny Quotes & Sayings

I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them. — Sia Furler

The guide showed us a coffee-colored piece of sculpture which he said was considered to have come from the hand of Phidias, since it was not possible that any other artist, of any epoch, could have copied nature with such faultless accuracy. The figure was that of a man without a skin; with every vein, artery, muscle, every fibre and tendon and tissue of the human frame, represented in detail. It looked natural, because somehow it looked as if it were in pain. A skinned man would be likely to look that way, unless his attention were occupied with some other matter. It was a hideous thing, and yet there was a fascination about it some where. I am sorry I saw it, because I shall always see it, now. I shall dream of it, sometimes. I shall dream that it is resting its corded arms on the bed's head and looking down on me with its dead eyes; I shall dream that it is stretched between the sheets with me and touching me with its exposed muscles and its stringy cold legs. — Mark Twain

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering. — Catherine Bell

The whole book is posing a question. You think you've won a war - what you've done is finish a war. There was a crime committed in that war the like of which perhaps was never committed in human history. You think about it. — William Golding

It was the beginning of the end. — Victor Hugo

I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles. — Chadwick Boseman

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion. — P. J. O'Rourke

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are! — H.L. Mencken

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound. — Richard D. James

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little. — Tori Amos

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through. — Enrique Pena Nieto

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve. — Victor Hugo

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night. — Marissa Mayer

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since. — Dagobert D. Runes

View the problem as an opportunity to grow. — J. Willard Marriott