humor

"Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye."

"With hindsight, one can perhaps see that unachievable projects were the right monuments to an ideal. Because they were not built, they could not be destroyed."

"Trouble Hearing the Show", Texaco Star Theatre with Fred Allen"

"Raphael, to be plain with you, for I prefer to be candid and outspoken, does not please me at all.. ..It is Titian that bears the banner."

"I wrote down “tea ski.” What the fuck kinda joke is that? I have no clue. Tea ski, what the fuck? Oh yeah, I remember. I wanna go to a lake and put tea bags in there, for like a hundred of ‘em for lik…"

"Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectua…"

"The Welsh made a very good and a very hard fight against the English in self-defence, and what was the consequence? That the English were obliged to surround your territory with great castles; and the…"

"To miss a high aim is to fail without shame."

"The fact that map is a fuzzy and radial, rather than a precisely defined, category is important because what a viewer interprets a display to be will influence her expectations about the display and h…"

"Engineers and certified pilots may be expensive but talented young men with a teenager's grasp of risk are surprisingly affordable."

"Bring together what is good for business with what is good for the world."

"The way that we look does not have anything to do with the way that we sound, or the way that we are."

"The organization as a coalition of diverse stakeholders is a coalition with multiple goals."

"Videos with full transcripts of lectures and speeches"

"Her light, mildly aseptic irony was wasted on Norine, who was unaware of irony and humorous vocal shadings; she listened only to the overt content of what was said and drew her own blunt inferences."

"Official John McLaughlin website"

"They’re not really so different. You know the old thing, comedy and tragedy are akin? Like lots of old things, it’s the truth. Back of all comedy, there is tragedy; back of every good belly-laugh ther…"

"Good intentions are pointless without the will to implement them."

"Robin Hood: Because unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with a English accent."

"You must fight or capitulate to those with whom you refuse to talk."