Browsing Topic Best Wordplay Quotes

Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.

The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.

Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.

Are you tired? You should be! You’ve been running through my mind all day.

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof. It’s a honey die list.

Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.

You go back to those films of the ’40s and ’50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we’ve really lost that in movies.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.

Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

tomorrow’s gone-we’ll have tonight!

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

When things go wrong, don’t go with them.

I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it.

The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches, from simple description and heartfelt expression to classical allusion and evocative wordplay. Succeeding generations rediscover and renew the form so that it retains its vitality.

Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.

Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.

I started putting words together, making rhymes and being witty with the wordplay. I can play a little bit of guitar, and that’s something I’m going to dedicate more time to doing.

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

That’s why you call it a budget. You set it and you don’t budge.

I have some things that I’ve been workin’ on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for.

I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery.

Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.

We always know, we always know, which is the right way to go, and which is the wrong way to go. Sometimes, the wrong way is easier to go, or more satisfying, and so we choose that way instead of the right one and we justify it with complicated wordplay and such; but we are only kidding ourselves.

Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn’t just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a pitch-perfect triumph of wit and wordplay that feels timelessly, effortlessly now.

In my own writing, I’ve mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

And there’s wordplay and there’s rhythms and you have to be able to get the poetry out of it. You have to be able to sell my jokes. And if you’re talking about somebody like Sam Jackson, they do that. Sam Jackson can do that. Sam Jackson can turn it into the spoken word that it was always meant to be and he can sell my jokes. And Christopher Walken can do it and a lot of people can do it, all right.

Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddled by mere wordplay, affirming this one aspect and denying all the rest. The pivot of Tao passes through the center where all affirmations and denials converge. He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point from which all movements and oppositions can be seen in their right relationship… Abandoning all thought of imposing a limit or taking sides, he rests in direct intuition.

And there are two types of stories. One type is one’s own story. The other type is telling the stories of others. Thanks to this genre, writers of nonfiction can now use the tools of the reporter, the points of view and ear for dialog of a novelist, and the passion and wordplay of the poet.

I don’t need DRUGS, I got the Most HIGH.