"One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself."

-- Mary Engelbreit

#Laughing Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?”
“The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the money to give you time to write and you spend all of it staying alive while you write, and you write your heart out, after all that, maybe no one will publish it, and if they publish it, maybe no one will read it. That is the hard truth, that is what it means to be a writer.”
“Every person has the right to look and feel like a million bucks.”

Source : "Dr. Oz Talks to Oprah About Food, Family and What It Really Means to Be Healthy". www.oprah.com. December 13, 2011.
“We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.”

Source : Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.90, Penguin
“I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.”
“The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret.”
“It's hard to stay flexible if you don't stretch. I think if you train the right way you'll be flexible. There are people that don't appreciate the value of stretching. I think it's very important.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.”

Source : Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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