humor

"If I'm ISIS, I call her up and I give her the most valuable player award. ... And I guarantee you with Libya, which was her baby, and all of the other mistakes she has made. Obama takes now, because o…"

"It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless."

"The engineers made hard forms. Evil. With angles. They are easily broken. The world is round and soft.."

"An interview with Vandana Shiva"

"With all the effort in the world, the results of cramming kids are likely to be more ambiguous than we can predict, not because the child rearing was done wrong but because all such results tend to be…"

"Che’s outside perspective jokes are always at least designed to toss obstacles in the way of conventional wisdom, so him telling Americans excited about Stone’s arrest to calm down because Trump is “o…"

"Unable to make radio contact with this second plane I felt my chances were fading fast. Dropping the radio mic, I sprinted up to the deck . . . and saw a huge ship bearing down on me!"

"I once heard Susan Sontag, in conversation with Umberto Eco, define the polymath as one “who is interested in everything, and in nothing else."

"If you can't sleep with your own wife wearing a false beard, what can you do?"

"If any-thing, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the U.S."

"We have endured a lot of harm from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his brothers, and we preferred to respond with as little as possible, out of our concern to extinguish the fire of sedition. But Abu Bakr al…"

"When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off."

"Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck."

"not an executive President but a working President and working within the four corners of the Constitution."

"The subject matter of mathematics is the expressions themselves together with the rules for manipulating them—nothing more."

"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t."

"Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache."

"I do ask the right hon. Baronet what is the meaning of overproduction? It means that too much is produced; and what can be thought of a country which produces so much, and where the great mass of the …"

"The link with Manat added to the acclaim for Mahmud. Not only was he the prize iconoclast in breaking Hindu idols, but in destroying Manat he had carried out what were said to be the very orders of th…"

"A man with money will get you everything, but you will pay for it."