Wisecracks Quotes

#1. When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.

George W. Bush

#2. We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

William Arthur Ward

#3. You don't get to have an opinion on whether .999 ... is equal to 1, for instance. It is equal to 1. People smarter than us have worked hard to figure this stuff out, and we owe it to them and to the universe to respect what they've figured out.

John Green

#4. There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
[Interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1956]

Dorothy Parker

#5. Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.

Jacques Lusseyran

#6. I wondered if this was how you'd felt.
I wondered if I was making myself feel how you'd felt.
I knew it wasn't a choice. It was just what my mind was doing.
Although I could've been fighting it more.

David Levithan

#7. Thank God for wisecracks.

Jim Butcher

#8. I've always played the guys that end up having the wisecracks.

Sean William Scott

#9. But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.

Deb Caletti

#10. Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

Sol Saks

#11. Sometimes I loved the disruptive student in class who livened up lectures with wisecracks - it put a spin on things, added flavor, made me laugh. Other times, I wished the heckler would just shut up so I could learn something.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#12. I really liked it best when I was a nobody.

Eric Heiden

#13. Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

Kate Christensen

#14. A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.

Cynthia Heimel

#15. The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.

John Lennon

#16. It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

Terence McKenna

#17. I always felt I understood myself better after we spent time together. And the way she laughed at my wisecracks and thanked me for my opinions made me think maybe I was as smart and funny as she said i was.

Anita Diamant

#18. Dying wasn't the joke, it was the punchline, the final guffaw, the crack-up, when your listeners' eyes should be streaming and your woman pees in her pants with laughing. You had to live with sufficient panache that the punchline worked.

Jane Messer

#19. If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

Barack Obama