William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes

The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.

William Lewis Safir

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• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Fun
  • Today
  • Day

• Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • High
  • Like

• I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Fun
  • Girl
  • Strong

• What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Band

• When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Drink

• I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Think

• Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Fun
  • Thought
  • Cute

• I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Good
  • Love

• I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Trying
  • Fun

• The game is meant to be fun.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Meant To Be

• I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • Job
  • Fun

• I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Guy

• I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now.

  

  Danny DeVito
  • Time
  • Long

• Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Men
  • True
  • Nature

• Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Up
  • Book
  • Service

• I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

  

  Dorothy Malone
  • Rock

• Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

  

  Brian Greene
  • Black
  • Lost

• The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Fun
  • Knowing