Fun Quotes - Page 111

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

Beer is an improvement on water itself.

One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field with a very primitive plow; pulling the plow were an ox and a woman. Now, if it means that we have destroyed this romantic picture by bringing in tractors, combines, and threshing machines, this is true: we have.

They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is imparted by a seafaring life as readily and surely as a rolling gait and a weather-beaten countenance. A fine imagination is one of the gifts of the ocean-witness the surprising and unlimited power of expression and epithet possessed by the sailor. And a fine imagination will frequently manifest itself in other ways besides swear words.

Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have.

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.

He is so shaggy. People are amazed when he gets up and they suddenly realize they have been talking to the wrong end.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.

Why do people say they wish every day was Friday? If it was always Friday, we'd be here every freakin' day.

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.