John Oliver Quotes

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

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• I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Said
  • Going
  • Phones

• I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Say
  • Sushi

• I have a very small public.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Small
  • Public
  • Very

• Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Purpose
  • Yourself
  • Mighty

• Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Work
  • Cutting
  • Taxes

• I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Trying
  • Next
  • Dave

• You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • You
  • Serious
  • Witty

• If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Up
  • Mother
  • House

• People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • People
  • Career
  • Want

• When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Important
  • Voice

• With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Time
  • Work
  • High

• Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Question
  • Right
  • Choose

• Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • May
  • Father
  • Voice

• As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Doing
  • Parent

• I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Voice

• This modeling thing, it's pretty easy, but actually it's also really tough.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Pretty
  • Easy
  • Tough

• When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

  

  O. Henry
  • Art
  • Service
  • Seems

• If I have a day off, I'll get up at three in the afternoon and make some noodles. I fix my makeup and then party until 5 A.M.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Up
  • Party
  • Day

• When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.

  

  Archibald Geikie
  • Company
  • Autumn
  • Holidays

• But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Powerful
  • Justice
  • Honey

• She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, button nose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough sort of face you can't ignore. Still, the whole package isn't so bad. For all I know maybe she's not so wild about her own looks, but she seems comfortable with who she is, and that's the important thing.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Balance
  • Ignore
  • Important Thing

• The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.

  

  Adam Savage
  • People
  • Heart
  • Small

• All around the world, there is corruption, tribalism and division, as many find it easier to pick on those that are different, which is why we need to hold tightly to the good in this world.

  

  Ger Duany
  • World
  • Good
  • Corruption

• I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

  

  John Oliver