(1752 quotes found)
“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obsessed by Making.”
E. E. Cummings
“A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."”
Jack Handy
“Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it . . .”
Mario Andretti
“Somebody was using the pencil.”
Dorothy Parker
“When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys come in, they say it's going to cost $75 million. I say it's going to cost $125 million, and I build it for $100 million. Basically, I did a lousy job. But they think I did a great job.”
Donald Trump
“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”
Cary Grant
“When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Somebody said to me, ''But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.'' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ''Now, let's write a swimming pool.''”
Paul McCartney
“We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by”
Will Rogers
“I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.”
Bill Bryson
