humor

"Even without looking I knew: there was no way I still had a mast. And without a mast, the trip was over."

"Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows."

"In industrial marketing settings, the relationship between buyer and seller is frequently long term, close and involving a complex pattern of interaction between and within each company. The marketers…"

"All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. You have to be incredibly self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming data."

"There should be no more signing of international agreements that reduce customs duties and other commercial barriers without including quantified and binding measures to combat fiscal and climate dump…"

"Farce may often border on tragedy; indeed, farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is."

"I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one sleeps with someone, one should be able – if called upon to do so – to make them a proper omelet in the morning. Surely that …"

"An Interview with J. C. R. LICKLIDER Conducted by James Pelkey June 28, 1988, Boston, MA"

"The most important thing about me is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like a sonnet."

"Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different."

"Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it."

"I was asked to make a report on the Italian situation to this special committee of the 'gas cell', which made it clear to me that I was to stick to the statistical facts and above all not to get invol…"

"I hate and despise a shrewish suspicion of foreigners and foreign ways; a man who can look me in the face, laugh with me, speak truth and deal fairly, is my brother, though his skin is as black as ink…"

"In the Spring of 1926 I made some toy animals of curtain rods, broom handles, etc., and wire. Later, a few dolls, which I animated.... In the Winter of 1927–1928 I made some more toys for a friend to …"

"In no country in Europe does the bulk of the population aspire to live in a bazaar of world cultures. Yet all European countries are coming to the wrenching realization that they have somehow, without…"

"..women... ...their way of observing, combining, sensing the way they dress. They compare a thousand of more visible things with one another than a man does."

"In the midst of all this, there was Bernie Madoff. An embezzler named "made off." Hmm. Was the name not a clue? Did he have to be with the accounting firm of Dewey, Fuckyou, and Howe?"

"By all means let us consult your needs! So long as they overlap precisely with my needs, I’m sure we can accommodate them."

"Is it rude to Twitter during sex? To go "omg, omg, wtf, zzz"? Is that rude?"

"That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS."