Facetiously Quotes

#1. To put the point facetiously, one could say that Hegel began his career a Marxist and later became a Hegelian.

Michael N. Forster

#2. When I'm looking for Zen and I'm not saying this facetiously at all - I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or fly my plane. And, when I feel tension about the grind of work, it's not getting the money to make films versus making films that constitutes the grind, it's all this stuff.

Edward Norton

#3. When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

George Shearing

#4. Good God! Are you saying he turned his own girlfriend into a statue and then killed himself in remorse? That is art!" I exclaimed, only half-facetiously. "Some

Michael DiBaggio

#5. (One newsmagazine, in 1987, defined them, half facetiously, as "cognitively infectious musical agents.")

Oliver Sacks

#6. Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.

Stephen King

#7. Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.

Joseph Heller

#8. I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

Woodrow Wilson

#9. Manufacturing still has the greatest multiplier effect, in terms of job creation, of any sector of the economy.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#10. Forty is a difficult age at which to stay awake, he decided. At twenty or at sixty the body knows what it's about, but forty is an adolescence where one sleeps to grow up or to stay young.

John Le Carre

#11. Ultimately, for me, I had an underlying belief or fear that I'm not enough as I am. Sometimes I discover those kinds of thoughts still lurking in my subconscious, and the best thing I can do is show up anyway.

Karla Cheatham Mosley

#12. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique ... something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

Vaclav Havel

#13. We all need daily encouragement.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.

William Bennett

#15. The artist has a special task and duty ... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

Lewis Mumford

#16. We need to focus on the speed with which local governments can work with businesses.

Muhtar Kent

#17. Take off your coat."
"Excuse me?"
"Take it off."
"No."
"I want it off."
"Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane]

J.R. Ward

#18. We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight.

George Linley

#19. I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

Bess Myerson

#20. Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you'd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel.

Amy Klobuchar

#21. We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

Friedrich Nietzsche