To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target

She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic.

It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it.

It is true, I worry about the hype. The only person more over-hyped than me is you.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding.

I'm sort of a needler, sarcastic and sometimes relentless. It's just the way I roll.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

I'm totally an East Coast person, energetic and sarcastic. I'm not a nice L.A. person.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

I've been fortunate - I haven't had too many auditions. I slept with the right people.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

I can be a very sarcastic person, and sometimes people take every word I say literally.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Well, I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.

You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.

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