I don't make personal abuse against anybody, I don't mind personal remarks.
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.
I was the kid in the class who was looking for the angles to question things or make wise-ass remarks, not knowing enough to be afraid of being myself or showing intelligence. But I wasn't the only kid like that in my classes because of where I grew up. I'm really thankful I grew up in a town where there were a lot of other mutant kids. I'm from Boulder, Colorado, which went through a lot of dramatic changes when I was growing up.
'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster. . . 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy. '
Remarks aren't literature.
I can't go to a bad movie by myself. What, am I gonna make sarcastic remarks to strangers?
Respect begins with this attitude: "I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth. God has endowed you with certain abilities and emotions. Therefore I respect you as a person. I will not desecrate your worth by making critical remarks about your intellect, your judgment or your logic. I will seek to understand you and grant you the freedom to think differently from the way I think and to experience emotions that I may not experience. " Respect means that you give the other person the freedom to be an individual.
Your remarks upon chemical notation with the variety of systems which have arisen, &c. , &c. , had almost stirred me up to regret publicly that such hindrances to the progress of science should exist. I cannot help thinking it a most unfortunate thing that men who as experimentalists & philosophers are the most fitted to advance the general cause of science & knowledge should by promulgation of their own theoretical views under the form of nomenclature, notation, or scale, actually retard its progress.
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers.
If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport
Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.
Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.
My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)