Pg8maa036110 Quotes & Sayings

Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy. — William Hazlitt

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use. — Ernest Hemingway,

I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background. — Xavier Dolan

Mel Gibson was lovely. He was on the edge of both scenes that I had with Danny Glover. — Tom Atkins

Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate. — David Packer

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking. — Andre Geim

Gay men greet each other just like straight guys do ... If one of the straight guys saved the other one's life. — Dov Davidoff

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.
[Lat., Festinat enim decurrere velox
Flosculus angustae miseraeque brevissima vitae
Portico; dum bibimus dum sera unguenta puellas
Poscimus obrepit non intellecta senectus.] — Juvenal

What has to be done can scarcely be termed heroic! Master — Anne McCaffrey

My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think. — Ben Whishaw