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  • I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

  • The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

    Fun   Character   Boys  
  • Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. Yet few investors approach the world with such a strict standard of risk avoidance.

    Risk   Investing   World  
  • COLD. Healthier than heat.

    Science   Heat   Cold  
    Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.25, New Directions Publishing
  • You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

    Children   Destiny   Men  
    A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA
  • I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.

  • The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.

    Science   Islands   Sea  
  • If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.

    Science   Fishing   Oil  
  • If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs.

    Quip   Dwarfs   Ifs  
    "Wilson vs Watson: The Blessing of Great Enemies". www.newscientist.com. September 10, 2009.
  • For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

    Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black Have Issues with Twitter" by Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2009.
  • I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

    Men   Thinking   Careers  
    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [262]
  • He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart.

  • Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

    Esar's Comic Dictionary
  • Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.

    War   Book   Men  
  • People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners are later inventions - words that people wished they had spouted, but failed to manufacture at the truly opportune instant.

    Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony
  • I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.

    Science   Quip  
    Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan, Augustus De Morgan (2010). “Memoir of Augustus De Morgan: With Selections from His Letters”, p.137, Cambridge University Press
  • I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

    Letter to the American people, 5 Nov. 1994
  • Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

    Ice   Romance   Age  
  • Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it's OK to disrespect dead white males.

  • Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

    Science   Feet   Giants  
  • Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.

    John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.59
  • Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).

    Jobs   Divorce   Media  
  • Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes (1887). “The "Breakfast-table" Series: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table; The Professor at the Breakfast- Table; The Poet at the Breakfast- Table”
  • I think actual death will be a lot easier than dying on stage. Cause - you know - if you do [actual death] right, you can go looking good. Maybe with a little quip [like]: 'I loved everybody.' But dying on stage...Oh, God!

  • DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'

    Science   Men   Doctors  
    Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.32, New Directions Publishing
  • Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like "Be careful what you wish for," she should have told me time slides away on a hillside of loose shale and takes everything in its path - dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.

  • As a matter of fact, I am an uncle. I have nine nephews and nieces. I'm not sure if they think I'm all that quick with a quip. But I'm quick with a spank.

    Uncles   Niece   Thinking  
    "Q&A – Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. September 2011.
  • Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but...you were well away. Why come back?" A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said.

    Grateful   Men   Mind  
    George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three”, p.631, Bantam
  • Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press
  • Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

    Wall   Memorable   Europe  
    Remarks at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987
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