Ongwus Humorist Quotes & Sayings

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one? — Abraham Pais

Where's your sense of adventure?"
"Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity? — Rachel Caine

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse. — Anne Rice

I probably shouldn't do a straight drama. I'd probably ruin it. I don't know. But, I'd love the opportunity to try. I'm sure that every kind of filmmaker feels that they can do other genres of film and want to, and I feel the same way. — Steve Pink

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records. — Chris Isaak

For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the words
their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on. Somewhere, too, in the gaps between a period and the next capital letter, there was also Max. She remembered reading to him when he was sick. It he in the basement? she wondered. Or is he stealing a glimpse of the sky again? — Markus Zusak

The most successful food, I think, is food that both appeals to the super-sophisticated diner or foodie and to the lay diner at the same time. — Charlie Trotter

For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by an inbred love of communing with nature — Thaddeus Norris

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. — Tom Lehrer

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes. — Max Weber

fucking prosecutor put a sleeper on the jury." I thought a moment about telling him but decided against it. "At the moment it's better if I don't tell — Michael Connelly