#wit

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. ↗

#brevity #dwarfish #epigram #soul #whole

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#boring #brittany #going #i #i think

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create. ↗

— David Copperfield

#camera #create #fly #i #seven

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#city #fairy #fancy #finding #fled

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#apply #energies #first #growing #incessantly

While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed. ↗

— Bill Condon

#changed #come #far #first #foremost

I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse. ↗

— David Cone

#i #pitcher #without

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. ↗

— Confucius

#depends #failure #preparation #previous #such

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ↗

— Confucius

#diamond #flaw #pebble #than #without

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. ↗