Quotes of: Witnesses Keyword

In Kurdistan, there's a lot of hardship - a lot of wars, a lot of bitter and difficult lifestyles. And witnessing all those made me a director.

Bahman Ghobadi

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

Bill McCollum

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

Jonathan Swift

I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.

David H. Murdock

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

Emanuel Celler

Miss Plimsoll: Wilfrid the Fox! That's what they call him, and that's what he is!

Witness for the Prosecution

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Omar Khayyam

[after witnessing a murder through a window] Paul Hackett: I'll probably get blamed for that.

After Hours

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Alexander Pope

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Alexander Pope

I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.

Margaret Cho

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.

Terence Stamp

TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom...

Life

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

William Congreve

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

W. Somerset Maugham

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

Willie Stargell

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

Elizabeth Montagu

When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it ...

Maya Angelou

The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest. He would whip her to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome by fatigue, would he cease to swing the blood-clott...

Frederick Douglass

Mona Lisa Vito: Don't you wanna know why Trotter gave you his files? Vinny Gambini: I told you why already. Mona Lisa Vito: He has to, by law, you're entitled. It's called disclosure, you dickhead! He has to show you everything, otherwise it could be...

My Cousin Vinny

Dave Kujan: Of course, I can't prove this. But I can't prove the best part either... Dean Keaton was dead. Did you know that? He died in a fire two years ago during the investigation into the murder of a witness who was going to testify against him. ...

The Usual Suspects