"Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing."

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Source : "Scratches in the Temple Wall – An Interview with Travis Nichols". Interview with Paul Killebrew, logger.believermag.com. July 29, 2013.

Travis Nichols

#Art Quotes #Creating Quotes #Keys Quotes

“Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.”
“In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions of parenthood, and which prevent the parent from doing things he wants to do as a guide, friend, and companion to his children.”

Source : Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books
“Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?”

Source : Harrison Evans Salisbury (1965). “Russia”, Scribner
“I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.”
“Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but multitudes everlastingly by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life.”
“Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.”

Source : Jack Foster, Larry Corby (2007). “How to Get Ideas”, p.108, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“We love our Hohne Pool. We never have had a problem. My neighbor has one too. We both enjoy them very much, completely happy. We're both very pleased.”
“We learn more about the character of people on one off day, than on all their best days put together.”

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