"Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it."

--

Evan Esar

#Laughter Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.”
“My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.”
“Be certain that Yasser Arafat’s final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, not yours. And be sure as well that … the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep.”
“Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with the genre that Mary Karr calls, half-facetiously, "literature's trashy cousin."”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of him if you closed your eyes and listened. From a visual artist's standpoint, Jim is a man of a thousand faces, all spellbinding.”
“You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.”

Source : "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.
“Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.”
“I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'”

You may also like:

Arthur Bloch
Writer
Edgar Fiedler
Economist
Erica Jong
Author
Herbert V. Prochnow
Author
Peter Viereck
Poet
Robert A. Heinlein
Science writer
Robert Jones Burdette
Paragrapher
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Poet
Wilson Mizner
Playwright