"What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I'm more interested in, there's the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious."

-- Alan Ayckbourn

#Running Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Pie Quotes

“If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.”
“Not everything," he said. "Not the important things. My kids are safe. You're safe. That's all I really care about. This" - he said motioning - "is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time.”
“Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.”
“People in the countryside carry a sense of dignity. They wear it, don't they? Like a badge? I'm being genuine.”
“Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.”
“I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.”

Source : Zadie Smith (2001). “White Teeth”, p.551, Penguin UK
“I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.”

Source : "Our Not-for-Profit Business" by Nancy Lublin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2008.
“Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.”

Source : "The media's lies poison our system" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2004.

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