Funny Quick Witted Quotes & Sayings

Thought all the wilderness of America was in the West till the Ghost of the Susquehanna showed me different. No, there is a wilderness in the East; it's the same wilderness Ben Franklin plodded in the oxcart days when he was postmaster, the same as it was when George Washington was a wildbuck Indian-fighter, when Daniel Boone told stories by Pennsylvania lamps and promised to find the Gap, when Bradford built his road and men whooped her up in log cabins. There were not great Arizona spaces for the little man, just the bushy wilderness of eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, the backroads, the black-tar roads that curve among the mournful rivers like Susquehanna, Monongahela, old Potomac and Monocacy. — Jack Kerouac

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog") — Stephen Crane

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude ... I hope to make you use your imagination. — Hedy Lamarr

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't. — Robin Williams

Strapping a computer display to your face is not the answer. — John Gruber

I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriend's blood, lied perfectly for the first time in my life.
I tried to stop her. — Maggie Stiefvater

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us. — C.S. Lewis

I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations. — Christina Baker Kline

I think I do have a good eye. It's quite liberating, being in a position to read a script and say, 'No.' It's really the only power you have, as an actor. — Matthew Macfadyen