Funny Smoother Than Quotes

#1. The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

William Ellery Channing

#2. My words are like Mummy: butterflies trapped inside a net.

Holly Bodger

#3. Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.

Edith Cavell

#4. Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative.

Phil Klay

#5. If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.

Charles Bukowski

#6. Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.

Heraclitus

#7. I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little.

David Chalmers

#8. An economists' consensus is perhaps more a rarity than a regularity. But when it happens, we need to pause and take stock.

Dani Rodrik

#9. Acting is easier and smoother than singing - it's less drama.

Beyonce Knowles

#10. A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.

Stefan Heym

#11. I'm a restaurant junkie.

Amy Carlson

#12. A man is hid under his tongue.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib