Quotes with can-opener

Quotes 4401 till 4420 of 6249.

• The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.

  ― Bill Burr
  American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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• The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

  ― Al Goldstein
  American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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• The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.

  ― Ben Harper
  American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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• The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

  ― L. Ron Hubbard
  American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology (1911 - 1986)
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• The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
  

  ― Will Rogers
  American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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• The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

  ― Ben Stein
  American professor, writer
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• The other day I got out my can-opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, What am I doing?!

  ― Jack Handey
   
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• The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

  ― Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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• The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

  ― Buffy Sainte-Marie
  Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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• The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

  ― Baz Luhrmann
  Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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• The past is not a package one can lay away.

  ― Emily Dickinson
  American poet (1830 - 1886)
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• The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.

  ― Billy Ray Cyrus
  American singer-songwriter and actor (1961 - )
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• The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.

  ― Bernard Williams
  English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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• The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

  ― Alphonse De Lamartine
  French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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• The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

  ― Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
  British princess
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• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

  ― Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

  ― Leigh Hunt
  British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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• The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

  ― Bennett Cerf
  American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• knowledge/capabilities
• unimaginative
• reductionists
• circumstances
• evolutionary
• desperation

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