humor

"Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes..."

"To James's intimates, however, these elaborate hesitancies, far from being an obstacle, were like a cobweb bridge flung from his mind to theirs, an invisible passage over which one knew that silver-fo…"

"A ring without a posy, and that ring mine?"

"Perfect peace comes only through relating with the Peacemaker himself."

"It should be noted that this duration is considerably longer than we naively expect. If two players with 500 dollars each toss a coin until one is ruined, the average duration of the game is 250,000 t…"

"Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour."

"I shall laugh my bitter laugh."

"In one work Marcel Duchamp meets Tracey Emin in the desert, with three camp cowboys. In another he meets Elvis and the Spice Girls."

"I ask Congressmen why they have such close relations with Armenia, and they say that the Armenian Diaspora gives them a lot of money. Is that corruption or not?"

"Schumann's humor is rarely either witty or light: the unrealizable musical structure, the musical motto hidden and partly inaudible, must have stirred his musical fantasy."

"My enemies, I thank you! You are who trained me to be patient, to respond to the evil with the good and to overlook."

"892. Better eat Salt with Philosophers of Greece, than eat Sugar with Courtezans of Italy."

"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that's where it's at."

"Drink to me with your eyes alone…. And if you will, take the cup to your lips and fill it with kisses, and give it so to me."

"Speaking of the Dead" - An interview with George A Romero"

"The perfect man ... is in a well-lit area watching the foolish antics of people stumbling around in the dark. He can demolish with a laugh the false standards and judgments which others apply to peopl…"

"We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas."

"Paolo Maldini who is here with us tonight was a player at the level of Franco Baresi, but Thiago is up there too."

"Let me deal here with what General Motors includes and with the responsibility that rests on its management."

"If Christ wished to convince his fellow-men by miracles, why did he not do something that could not by any means have been a counterfeit? Instead of healing a withered arm, why did he not find some ma…"