Henry Ward Beecher
~ All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Yogi Berra
~ If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else.
Bill Bernbach
~ Dullness won’t sell your product, but neither will irrelevant brilliance.
Erma Bombeck
~ If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.
Edward de Bono
~ It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions; humor is involved in changing them.
Mel Brooks
~ Life abounds in comedy if you just look around.
Art Buchwald
~ I learned that when I made people laugh, they liked me. This is a lesson I’ll never forget.
Eddie Cantor
Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.
Calvin Coolidge
~ I not only use all the brains I have, I use all the brains I can borrow.
J. W. Eagan
~ Never judge a book by its movie.
Linda Ellerbee
~ Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
Joseph R. Garber
Characters conversing in his novel Whirlwind:
~ “While we were talking, a thought crossed my mind.”
~~~ “Short trip.”
Samuel Goldwyn
~ If I look confused, it’s because I’m thinking.
Frank Herbert
~ Money to a writer is time to write.
Alfred Hitchcock
~ Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Stephen King
~ I have the world’s best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.
Richard Lederer
~ I never met-a-phor I didn’t like.
G. C. Lichtenberg
~ Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Robert McCloskey
~ I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
H. L. Mencken
~ All Shakespeare did was to string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
George Orwell
~ A thing is funny when — in some way that is not actually offensive or frightening — it upsets the established order. Every joke is a tiny revolution.
Andy Rooney
~Keep in mind that you’re more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.
Leo Rosten
~ If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.
Muriel Rukeyser
~ The world is not made up of atoms, it’s made up of stories.
Adlai Stevenson
~ Man does not live by words alone, but he sometimes has to eat them.
Robert Louis Stevenson
~ I have six honest servants; they’ve taught me all I know. Their names are what, why, and who, and when and where and how.
Dylan Thomas
~ Someone’s boring me. I think it’s me.
Stephen Wright
~ What’s another word for thesaurus?
Mortimer Zuckerman
~Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.
