humor

"I said, 'General, there's no way I can make it down that ramp without falling on my ass, general. I have no railing.'"

"My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality."

"Tessa’s hilarious… I think it’s one of the things that gets overlooked because she’s always so pulled together, but she has the best sense of humor. It’s been the joy of my life to have as many laughs…"

"Mrs. Troyle paused again, with the self-applauding air of one who has detected an asp lurking in an apple-charlotte."

"“Vision without action which fails to touch the lives of the poor is not vision, but self delusion."

"If I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upward into a multitude of techniques and theorems while its root drives into the depths, then it seems to me that the impetus of the root."

"The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz."

"If perchance there should be foolish speakers who, together with those ignorant of all mathematics, will take it upon themselves to decide concerning these things, and because of some place in the Scr…"

"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."

"To hit a baseball with dispatch, one needs both to step into the ball and to rotate."

"Every hot spring has healing properties because it has been boiled with foreign substances, and thus acquires a new useful quality."

"Lightweight concrete obtained with special admixtures producing bubbles throughout the mass shows lower resistance, which makes it less suitable for structural purposes; its practical application is l…"

"I sit here in the upper circle surrounded by copper and gold, and smile with joy under my fly net as all the light, glory and quivering brightness passes slowly and freely before my eyes. Nothing happ…"

"In his autobiography, former President Bill Clinton credits Vachss with and notes how important it was to him and wife Hillary. But there's a catch, according to Vachss: 'It's never been funded.'"

"I don't do movies because I think generally the size of that content does not lend itself to great comedy; it lends itself to people saying, "Hey, I made a movie." To me, the funniest things are short…"

"Doing things without giving the impression of suffering is a question of good manners."

"While they create a way of seeing and suggest a way of acting, they also tend to create ways of not seeing, and eliminate the possibility of actions associated with alternative views of the world."

"Not with violence, but with words."

"The huge dome of St. Paul's arose bathed in the moonlight, that giant fane of a giant city, a hundred spires were shining silvery in the soft gleam, and all meaner objects were touched with a pictures…"

"Enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil. No believer should subject himself to humiliation, for I will be with the weak against the strong so long as he has been wronged, Insha'Allah"