Quotes on Favourite

My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic - that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.

I think my favourite thing about doing conventions is the parents taking their kids to see their favourite drag idols, because open-minded, progressive parents are making such a change in the world right now. The more open-minded these kids are being raised, the more hope I have for the future.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes.

Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.

If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have…and the thing we’ve seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously that’s going to be our least favourite thing.