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I’ve been here for 15 years giving my ⏰ & witty thoughts all for bupkis. Now you’re telling me that I have to pay for something you gave me for free? – Adobe Stock Twitter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
She got everything she wanted, everything, which was unheard of in 1955, she was whip smart, witty, ambitious, strategic and above all, incredibly courageous. – Amy Greene	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Tiana invites us as her guests to go on an adventure with her in the bayou, we as the guests are active participants in this adventure. She [ Tiana ] acknowledges us and being the witty person she is she takes us on this amazing journey where we get to discover not only characters we know andlove from the film but this is an opportunity to be introduced to some new characters. – Charita Carter	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Happy birthday to a person that’s charming, talented, and witty, and reminds me a lot of myself. – Birthday	added by ValidVibes 3 years ago
Williams wrote about current and past racial tensions in America reflected through Walter Williams teenage years in a housing project in Northern Philadelphia. News of Walter Williams death promptedwords of grief from several prominent Republicans. Walter Williams was legendary, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wrote. Walter Williams was brilliant, incisive, witty, and profound. I grew up reading Walter Williams, and Walter Williams was a ferocious defender of free markets and a powerful explainer of the virtues of Liberty. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Thy witty dexterousness espouses life’s aesthetic aspect. – The notorious.	added by Thamer 4 years ago
I have known her since she was 16 years old, she was bright, she was warm, she was witty. But most of all, she was an outstanding individual, a great friend to so, so many people in this city in the short time that she was with us. – Londonderry Mayor John Boyle	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Yorgos has such a unique vision. He is very witty, he takes a lot of risks, it's a remarkable feeling to have a film with so many women in it get so many nominations. – Ceci Dempsey	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If you’re trying to be witty, funny, or even a little edgy with a costume, sit back and get a second opinion from a family member or political correct friend, most people really are n’t trying to be insensitive at all but sometimes it takes another voice to point out a potential issue. – Michelle Lee Flores	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Prince is a towering figure in global culture and his music has been the soundtrack for untold numbers of people — including me — for more than a generation; his creative genius has provided the musical landscape of our lives, millions of words have been written about Prince — books and articles, essays and criticism — but we're thrilled to be publishing Prince's powerful reflections on his own life in his own incandescently vivid, witty, and poetic voice. – Spiegel Grau	Found on CNN 8 years ago
As the 'Voice of the Bills,' Van's historic radio calls of Bills games over the years will forever resonate with our fans, his Hall of Fame and Wall of Fame talent was overshadowed only by his engaging personality, his witty sense of humor and his love for the Bills. We will all dearly miss 'Uncle Van,' but his legacy will remain deeply embedded in our franchise's history and in the hearts of his countless fans in Western New York and throughout the NFL community. – President Russ Brandon	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It was a pioneering group, quite popular, long before Facebook and Twitter, avijit Roy was patient, witty, elegant and mature in dealing with dissidents. Avijit Roy goal was to win them over. – Rayan Rashid	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Andrew Witty desperately needs this to succeed in order to leave a legacy worth remembering. – Mick Cooper	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I realize that my offhanded attempts at sarcasm and humor were not as witty as they were intended to be, but even with this acknowledgment ... I am not guilty for the crimes of which I have been accused. – Bridget Anne Kelly	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Gary did not work. Gary played, he was a very charming, creative, witty guy who had a good time. – George Schlatter	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. – Thomas Hobbes	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 10 years ago
He that will give himself to all manner of ways to get money may be rich; so he that lets fly all he knows or thinks may by chance be satirically witty. Honesty sometimes keeps a man from growing rich, and civility from being witty. – John Selden	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates. – Cervantes	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. – Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech. – Langston Hughes	added by anonymous 13 years ago
But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. – George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals. – Emma Thompson, Vanity Fair	added by anonymous 13 years ago

I’ve been here for 15 years giving my ⏰ & witty thoughts all for bupkis. Now you’re telling me that I have to pay for something you gave me for free?

– Adobe Stock Twitter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She got everything she wanted, everything, which was unheard of in 1955, she was whip smart, witty, ambitious, strategic and above all, incredibly courageous.

– Amy Greene

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Tiana invites us as her guests to go on an adventure with her in the bayou, we as the guests are active participants in this adventure. She [ Tiana ] acknowledges us and being the witty person she is she takes us on this amazing journey where we get to discover not only characters we know andlove from the film but this is an opportunity to be introduced to some new characters.

– Charita Carter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Happy birthday to a person that’s charming, talented, and witty, and reminds me a lot of myself.

– Birthday

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

Williams wrote about current and past racial tensions in America reflected through Walter Williams teenage years in a housing project in Northern Philadelphia. News of Walter Williams death promptedwords of grief from several prominent Republicans. Walter Williams was legendary, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wrote. Walter Williams was brilliant, incisive, witty, and profound. I grew up reading Walter Williams, and Walter Williams was a ferocious defender of free markets and a powerful explainer of the virtues of Liberty.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Thy witty dexterousness espouses life’s aesthetic aspect.

– The notorious.

added by Thamer
4 years ago

I have known her since she was 16 years old, she was bright, she was warm, she was witty. But most of all, she was an outstanding individual, a great friend to so, so many people in this city in the short time that she was with us.

– Londonderry Mayor John Boyle

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Yorgos has such a unique vision. He is very witty, he takes a lot of risks, it's a remarkable feeling to have a film with so many women in it get so many nominations.

– Ceci Dempsey

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If you’re trying to be witty, funny, or even a little edgy with a costume, sit back and get a second opinion from a family member or political correct friend, most people really are n’t trying to be insensitive at all but sometimes it takes another voice to point out a potential issue.

– Michelle Lee Flores

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Prince is a towering figure in global culture and his music has been the soundtrack for untold numbers of people — including me — for more than a generation; his creative genius has provided the musical landscape of our lives, millions of words have been written about Prince — books and articles, essays and criticism — but we're thrilled to be publishing Prince's powerful reflections on his own life in his own incandescently vivid, witty, and poetic voice.

– Spiegel Grau

Found on CNN
8 years ago

As the 'Voice of the Bills,' Van's historic radio calls of Bills games over the years will forever resonate with our fans, his Hall of Fame and Wall of Fame talent was overshadowed only by his engaging personality, his witty sense of humor and his love for the Bills. We will all dearly miss 'Uncle Van,' but his legacy will remain deeply embedded in our franchise's history and in the hearts of his countless fans in Western New York and throughout the NFL community.

– President Russ Brandon

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It was a pioneering group, quite popular, long before Facebook and Twitter, avijit Roy was patient, witty, elegant and mature in dealing with dissidents. Avijit Roy goal was to win them over.

– Rayan Rashid

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Andrew Witty desperately needs this to succeed in order to leave a legacy worth remembering.

– Mick Cooper

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I realize that my offhanded attempts at sarcasm and humor were not as witty as they were intended to be, but even with this acknowledgment ... I am not guilty for the crimes of which I have been accused.

– Bridget Anne Kelly

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Gary did not work. Gary played, he was a very charming, creative, witty guy who had a good time.

– George Schlatter

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

– Richard Brinsley Sheridan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

– Thomas Hobbes

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

– Aristotle

added by anonymous
10 years ago

He that will give himself to all manner of ways to get money may be rich; so he that lets fly all he knows or thinks may by chance be satirically witty. Honesty sometimes keeps a man from growing rich, and civility from being witty.

– John Selden

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

– Cervantes

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

– Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

– Langston Hughes

added by anonymous
13 years ago

But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

– George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

– Emma Thompson, Vanity Fair

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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