Quotes of: Witness-stand Keyword

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

Ben Okri

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

Helen Mirren

Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that!

Julia Roberts

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

John Updike

Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.

Jane Hirshfield

Helena Ayala: [to Juan] I want the principle witness against my husband Eduardo Ruiz killed.

Traffic

Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

Martin Amis

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

Doris Lessing

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Germaine Greer

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

Alex Campbell

I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit.

Ashley Greene

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Andre Maurois

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

Anuj Somany

Anyone who witnesses to the Grace of God revealed in Christ is undertaking direct assault against Satan's dominion.

Life

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

Virgil Thomson

If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.

Wen Jiabao

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

Walter Kirn

The pure products of America go crazy... ...[] No one to witness and adjust, no one to drive the car

William Carlos Williams

All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.

Marcus Brigstocke

He on whose head we would break a coconut never stands still.

African

The very fact that we are looking for something usually stands in the way of our finding it.

African