"Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts."

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Source : Will Cuppy, P. G. Wodehouse (2005). “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes”, p.29, David R. Godine Publisher

Will Cuppy

#Facts Quotes #Baboons Quotes

“Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.”
“What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.”
“No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it never changes its essence, because the contracts that have come about over time for communication cannot be rescinded so easily.”
“I sometimes wonder if what I create as a writer will leave any sort of dent. There's really no way of knowing, so I just have to keep going.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of living both personally and historically. That is why science now draws to itself all kinds of people - charlatans, mediocrities, geniuses - everyone who wants to touch the flame, feel alive to the time.”

Source : Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.16, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.”
“By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“When I won the Cesar, I was, first of all, an actor. I have to say, it's humanity first. That's the future. We have to stop seeing the skin color. I believe that's the most powerful way to change mentalities and behavior.”

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