"Americans just don't understand dry wit."

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John Oliver

#Dry Quotes #Wit Quotes

“...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.”
“The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.”
“Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.”
“Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.”
“The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”
“I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the themes of Mark Twain’s original: class relations, race and slavery, childhood innocence, moral hypocrisy—and, of course, the stark beauty and unforgiving nature of America’s greatest river. I finished this absolutely elegant narrative feeling that Huck Finn has never been more alive.”
“I have a son who's been raised Jewish because his mom is Jewish. I have a whole different set of holidays to celebrate. Everybody is thrown together with their family in such an intense way, opening all of that stuff again. You're cooped up with everybody and forced to exist with them, and you're forced to try to relate to them in this way that's more open. I guess that just doesn't work for a lot of people.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.”

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