humor

"Sahl ibn Sa'd reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "I and those who care for orphans will be in the Garden like this," and he pointed with his forefinge…"

"I used to sit in my room at... let's see: how old-- I was ten years old... playing albums and just crying laughing, and just in wonderment at what he was doing, and just-- that I had never heard someb…"

"After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow."

"The lot of the favored guest of an Indian camp or village is idleness without repose, for he is never left alone, with the repletion of incessant and inevitable feasts."

"It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last."

"It's rooted in the fears to which all men are heir and, thus, deserves sympathy, not censure or laughter. The dream may be out of touch with history, but it's a good dream, and it doesn't appear to ha…"

"The piano plays a central role in Prokofiev’s oeuvre. Not only are his works for piano solo or piano with orchestra numerous, but they also rank among his more important compositions. The piano was th…"

"Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!"

"the prostrate Paurava realm, and pushing beyond them westwards, he had a long contest with and conquered the Druhyu king who appears to have been then on the confines of the Panjab, so that the next D…"

"He was out of tune with what a younger generation of poets were writing, and railed against the shallowness and commercialisation of the modern world, from his fastness: a farmhouse surrounded by orch…"

"I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste."

"Michael Servetus Research Website with quotes and documents of Servetus's work and biography."

"Honor without intelligence is a disaster. Honor could lose the war."

"I may be furious and sad about what happened with us, but that doesn't make me believe that what we had wasn't real. And it doesn't make me believe that I won't find something that real again."

"I told Mr Ferguson that United didn't deserve to leave Stamford Bridge with nothing."

"If you could be alarmed into the semblance of modesty, you would charm everybody; but remember my joke against you about the Moon and the Solar System;—"Damn the solar system! bad light — planets too …"

"I like Monty, I'd like to sit with my arm round him on the sofa all night watching documentaries on BBC Four."

"I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff."

"During childhood, they played games with fierce intensity, giving themselves as sacrifice to the game, for play was the chief business of growth, finding and making themselves in the world. Now when t…"

"An Interview With Paul West", David W. Madden. A 1989 interview"