Witty Quotes
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Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.
David Grann
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Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas you look at the finished book and you think, 'Oh, damn it, I should have changed that.' You're never happy. Whereas with a baby, you're happy. If you've got a perfect baby, you're just grateful.
Joanne Rowling
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
William S. Burroughs
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Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much.
Angelina Jolie
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve
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Schumann's humor is rarely either witty or light: the unrealizable musical structure, the musical motto hidden and partly inaudible, must have stirred his musical fantasy.
Charles Rosen
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I have little brothers and sisters, and they annoy me a lot, but I love them so much because they're so smart and witty.
Letitia Wright
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Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really a writer at all, and that is a voice, a distinct and identifiable voice. This is really not the same thing as a style; a style can be emulated, a voice cannot, and the witty, rueful, elegaic voice gives his work its bright authenticity.
William Styron
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Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )
Seymour Cray
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The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.
Ernest Rutherford
