Wryness Quotes

#1. Boudicca MacDaede was not the most striking of women, but she had a wryness in character and heartiness in form that recommended her to the rough demands of a farmer's daughter and a soldier's sufferance." ~ First two lines of book 1 in the Haanta Series

Michelle Franklin

#2. I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

John D. MacDonald

#3. He remembered Simon warning him, with wryness, that Clary had the nuclear bomb of boyfriends.

Cassandra Clare

#4. A nice note, Addy? You're calling the best orgasms we've ever had nice?"
She canted her head, wryness in the motion. "Speak for yourself, Callaghan.

Kate Meader

#5. I don't think it's aiming at gags, I think the humour is woven into it. It's part of how the characters operate and how they deal with disaster because they're worldly enough to have a bit of irony and wryness about their own circumstances. So, I think the humour comes out of that.

Colin Firth

#6. Bob," I asked. "What is all my stuff doing here?" "Oh," Bob said. "That. Well. Bianca got the idea, somewhere, that your stuff might explode if anyone messed around with it." I heard the wryness in my voice, though I didn't feel it. "She did, did she." "I can't imagine how." "I'm doubling your pay.

Jim Butcher

#7. I find that break-ups are so much easier when you can hate the person.

Lizzy Caplan

#8. Chris Nolan is an amazing director.

Tom Lister Jr.

#9. Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

Oscar De La Renta

#10. Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.

Frederick Lenz

#11. I have always advised men to read.

Mary Harris Jones

#12. The popular culture gives us books that offer entertainment but no ideas. High culture gives us books that offer ideas but no entertainment. The best books manage to do both.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#13. I'm not going to give the same energy. I am going to give more of myself. If everyone thinks like that, it's going to be something incredible.

Hanley Ramirez

#14. Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

William Shakespeare

#15. If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we had better do it soon.

Walter E. Williams

#16. If we care about life and the dignity of all life, then we care about the dignity of all life, and that includes the human life of children.

James Lankford