humor

"I cannot get over the strange conflict between my estimation of their ideas most of which I find brilliant and fruitful, and my view of the pictures , which strike me as, without a doubt, utterly medi…"

"Rosey Grier, immortalized in needlepoint - and by my own hands to boot! If anyone would have told me that I would go from football to needlepoint, I would have laughed in their face. In fact, the whol…"

"Chaplin made me laugh and cry without saying a word. I had an instinct. I was touched by the soul of Chaplin — Mime is not an imitator but a creator."

"I wish I had the answer to that, because if I knew how to create an instantly popular character like that, I would do more of them. It’s weird to me because, on one hand, she’s appealing, but you look…"

"The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone."

"While I was mayor, I learned that government is a system of checks and balances — you can't simply walk in and change things. It takes time. I used to joke that it would be nice if a magic wand came w…"

"Funny scene, likesay, how aw the psychos seem tae ken each other, ken what ah means, likes?"

"The funny thing about being an actor is, at least from my point of view, you don’t spend a lot of time reflecting. You’re just on to the next thing. The work is so tricky to get sometimes. I’ve spent …"

"I made him with these hands, and with these hands I'll destroy him."

"I feel like punching you in your mouth, okay?"

"He always comes to the training field with a smile for everyone, a comforting word for everyone. This is his greatness: humbleness... he’s a golden person."

"Purposes fraught with horror, that shun the light, and contemplate the pollution of innocence are here engendered, and fostered, and reared to maturity."

"Sections of the European right voluntarily entered into complicity with fascism when they believed that their social and economic interest were seriously threatened by the left."

"Flaubert offered a further tutorial on the proper use of the "objective correlative"—the telling detail that transmits meaning and emotion without labouring the point."

"But wit cuts its bright way through the glass-door of public favour;"

"An Evening with Yahia Lababidi in Austin, Texas"

"Azerbaijan has exhausted the resources of trust in terms of autonomous status for minorities within its boundaries. It was not and is not capable of providing guarantees of even internal security to s…"

"Take my hand, come with me"

"'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion."

"If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent."