#wit

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear. ↗

— Randy Newman

#dinner #found #had #i #madonna

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me. ↗

— Marc Newson

#design #exists #go #go away #i

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#enemy #making #point #tact #without

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#i #jack #jack nicholson #nicholson #sunglasses

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#bomb #fear #got #like #movie

People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#beautiful place #day #destroying #dump #enhance

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle. ↗

— Theophrastus

#horse #judgment #orator #without

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#civil #dad #engineer #got #help

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain. ↗

— Harold Nicolson

#attain #broadcasting #capacity #could #gift

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry. ↗

— Leon Theremin

#artistry #conceived #conductor #create #effect