Funny Good Afternoon Sayings

#1. What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

Daniel Barenboim

#2. Moved through the days in peace and wonder, for his whole story had been told for the first time, and he found that he was still loved.

Andrew Peterson

#3. I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time.

Debra Messing

#4. There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot. Or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something.

Roger Deakins

#5. It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Whether you consider yourself a believer or a skeptic, I invite you to seek the same kind of honesty and to grow in an understanding of the nature of your own doubts. The result will exceed anything you can imagine.

Timothy Keller

#7. A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness and knowledge the merits of Picasso or Van Gogh, or the Zionist question, or the British achievements in Arabia.

Kenneth Williams

#8. I'll win you over eventually. I'm very charming that way.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#9. Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

Haile Gerima

#10. The conversation of the mind was truer than any language, and they knew each other better than they ever could have by use of mere sight and touch.

Orson Scott Card

#11. In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.

Robert Breault

#12. Some grief shows much of love,
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

William Shakespeare

#13. to be aware that you must compete somehow, and yet that wealth and beauty are not in your realm.

Sylvia Plath

#14. The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Minna Antrim

#15. There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

Octave Mirbeau