Quotes about wry (16 Quotes)



    For someone who does as many things as he does -- edits, writes columns, writes books, lectures -- he is calm and very relaxed with a great wry sense of humor about things.


    I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

    She also tempers emotion with wry perspective. A woman driven to infamy by passion cannot have the man she loves. As women have found since love began, ... she found she could live.





    James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

    Singer-songwriter Dan Hicks has a devoted cult following, but for those who have never heard of him and his wry sense of humor, now is your chance. Time and again, Hicks is referred to as a true American original and we are happy to host this ice cool daddy of swing.

    After she made the free throw and (Monroe) called timeout, I asked her if that made up for all the times she gets blocked. She just gave me a wry smile. But that is what we want her to do, attack.


    Sonnet To a Child Sweet is your antique body, not yet young Beauty withheld from youth that looks for youth Fair only for your father. Dear among Masters in art. To all men else uncouth Save me, who know your smile comes very old, Learnt of the happy dead that laughed with gods For earlier suns than ours have lent you gold Sly fauns and trees have given you jigs and nods. But soon your heart, hot-beating like a bird's, Shall slow down. Youth shall lop your hair And you must learn wry meanings in our words. Your smile shall dull, because too keen aware And when for hopes your hand shall be uncurled, Your eyes shall close, being open to the world.

    Whenever I saw her, whether it was holding court backstage or pumping gas at a Broad Street self-serve, she always rushed forward with a torrent of warm words, a wry smile and an all-embracing hug. Her talent and her humanity are irreplaceable.





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