humor

"Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

"I am working from morning to evening, brimming with energy.. I'm fencing and wrestling with the sun. And what a sun it is! In order to paint here, one would need gold and precious stones. It is quite …"

"Hitoshi Ariga's Twitter"

"Laboratory or industrial chemical reactions are carried out with quantities that range from milligrams to tons, so we must be able to relate the relative atomic mass scale to the macroscopic scales us…"

"‘... he sang with his eyes squeezed tight, as if he were dropping from a great height.’"

"Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they’re sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they’re well too soon, with the same result."

"1991 audio interview with Gary Snyder by Don Swaim of CBS Radio - RealAudio"

"I wouldn't be involved with it if I wasn't aware that it was going to be a product. I always wanted whatever I did to end up in the high street, no matter what it was, because to me, there isn't anywh…"

"Anas reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "No young man honours an old man on account of his age without Allah decreeing for him one who will honour him…"

"I have seen the very bottom of life: I was so afraid I wouldn’t be funny anymore. I just knew that I would lose my zaniness and my sense of humor. But I didn’t. Recovery turned out to be a wonderful t…"

"He ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back."

"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened."

"If China revives again we could not wage war with her by ourselves."

"The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive w…"

"The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the of the state. But after its victory the sole organisation which the proletariat…"

"I liked him as a pianist. He was a good musician and had a fantastic repertoire. He never had a great technique, but certain things he played well. I heard him play some of the Chopin etudes, the easi…"

"No one can buy his share of "clean air" in the market; one has to use communal mechanisms in order to deal with pollution."

"Tsipras profile on Twitter.com"

"The problem with training is it's the last thing on the budget list. It's the first thing to get cut. And it should not be."

"You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off."