Top 35 Quips N Quotes
#1. Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.
Matt Chandler
#2. On a wing and a prayer. (After being asked how the angels make love in Milton's Paradise Lost).
Benjamin R. Smith
#3. One of my most often repeated quips was the one I made when former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon stood by each other at a White House event. 'There they are,' I said. 'See no evil, hear no evil, and ... evil.'
Bob Dole
#4. Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.
P.T. Barnum
#5. Cole Archer's Chillout Mix. That's my son's mix. He's ten weeks old, and this is what he listens to: 'Valerie' by Amy Winehouse, 'Everyday People' by Arrested Development, The Beatles' 'Rocky Raccoon,' and Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City.'
Adam Pally
#6. In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.
Honore De Balzac
#7. I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
Jojo Moyes
#8. There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.
Chuck Grassley
#9. The princess snorted. "If you haven't figured out by now that I don't care what you think of me, let this be the lesson that sticks.
C.J. Redwine
#10. Ser Jaime ... I am grateful, but ... you were well away. Why come back?" A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you
George R R Martin
#12. Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.
Willis Regier
#13. Zack looks at Jenna and slowly pulls off his sunglasses. "Why, hello, beautiful," he says. "I'm Zack." He shows off his dimples. "And you are ... ?"
"Not going to sleep with you," Jenna quips, grinning right back at him.
His smile widens. "Well played.
Chelsea Fine
#14. Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but ... you were well away. Why come back?"
A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said.
George R R Martin
#15. Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#16. I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
Shirley Manson
#17. And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic, which took a whole life to develop and market - the quips, the witticisms, the slant adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest the lip of the stage . . . - JOHN UPDIKE, "Perfection Wasted
Carole Radziwill
#18. I'm slightly obsessed with drag queens and performers. Their quips and their one-liners, their style, their singing ... I find it fascinating. And thoroughly entertaining. I'd love to play one.
Russell Tovey
#19. Leonidas's and Dienekes' quips draw the individual out of his private terror and yoke him to the group.
Steven Pressfield
#20. In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. Yet few investors approach the world with such a strict standard of risk avoidance.
Seth Klarman
#22. When enter the whole new world, men will deal with new science.
To embrace a new science, men need to get used to new wisdom.
Toba Beta
#23. Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.
Mac Barnett
#24. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
John Milton
#25. I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.
Matthew McConaughey
#26. Effortlessly, the man sowed the idea of sex with his quips, the smiles, and something as innocent as their legs brushing against one another.
Melissa Blue
#27. Anywhere outside the normal is never a safe place to be.
Ray Anyasi
#28. You're a professor of astrophysics? And you want to be the ship's cook?" "Is the job in space?" "Yes." "Then I wish to be the ship's cook,
Anonymous
#29. Archiving is extremely expensive and time consuming. I'm sure an archivist would tell me I'm doing it wrong. It's an industry that's built upon essential ideas, and some of those practices are abusive.
Ian MacKaye
#30. No," said Hermione shortly. "Have either of you seen my copy of Numerology and Gramatica?"
"Oh, yeah, I borrowed it for a bit of bedtime reading," said Ron, but very quietly.
J.K. Rowling
#31. All the quips in the world couldn't prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool.
David Levithan
#32. For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.
Michael Showalter
#33. Ya writin' a book? Hey great. Need some help? Want some of my quips? Hey, we could do it together. We'd quip 'em to death. Give 'em quiplash hee hee hee.
Ken Dryden
#34. So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#35. Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).
Simon Mainwaring
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