Funny Inspirational Quotes - Page 18

• The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Memorable, Men

  William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.196

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• I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Friendship, Confidence

  "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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• I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.

  Amy Poehler

  Growing Up, Amy, Growing

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• I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

  Gilda Radner

  Witty, Fashion, Life And Love

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• If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Witty, Women

  Quoted in Colin JarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 285, 1979.

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• Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

  James Thurber

  Inspirational, Funny, Fall

  New Yorker 29 Apr. 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"

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• So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Beautiful, Powerful

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• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Vegan Food, Vegetarian, Freak

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• The nicest thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

  Kenneth Williams

  Funny, Giving, Nodding

  Acid Drops preface (1980)

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• She watched the first episode and she was like, 'This is feminism?' And then by the end of the season, she was like, 'This is feminism.' The tone changed completely. She was really psyched about it.

  Allison Williams

  Inspirational, Empowering, Feminism

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• I've tried many different types of alarm apps, but the tried and true is the iPhone alarm. I like it because you can label your alarms. For my personal amusement, I've labeled them 3 a.m. for 'ridiculously early,' 3:30 is just 'early,' and 4 is 'slacker.'

  Savannah Guthrie

  Inspirational, Iphone, Empowering

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• Every sweet, humble young model is only one campaign away from becoming a fashion monster.

  Coco Rocha

  Inspirational, Fashion, Sweet

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• Make [food] simple and let things taste of what they are.

  Curnonsky

  Simple, Cooking, Taste

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• Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

  Stan Kelly-Bootle

  Technology, Compromise, Computer

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• I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

  Carol Burnett

  Memorable, Thinking, Teeth

  "Teeth implants an involved process". Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, February 27, 2017.

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• The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.

  Victoria Mahoney

  Inspirational, White, Empowering

  "There Is an Audience for Our Films: Four African-American Female Filmmakers Speak Out". Interview with Lorenza Muñoz, www.thedailybeast.com. December 4, 2012.

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• All things come to those who wait.

  Violet Fane

  Patience, Life Changing, Funny Motivational

  Violet Fane (1872). “From Dawn to Noon: Poems”, p.85

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• There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food... A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles.

  Laurie Colwin

  Baseball, Party, Winter

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• The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.

  Marion Nestle

  Powerful, Four, Milk

  "Feeding Frenzy" by Laura Shapiro, www.newsweek.com. May 26, 1991.

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• It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

  Steve McConnell

  Errors, Coders, Enough

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• Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

  Brian Kernighan

  Inspirational, Funny, Smart

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