"I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Dumb Quotes

“Winning is like sex, the more you do it, the more you like it.”
“Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.”
“Humor is tragedy plus time.”
“I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
“People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.”

Source : "Carrie-Anne Moss Is the One" by David Hochman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“There is no victory at bargain basement prices.”
“I'm really afraid of getting hit by cars, like terrified of it. I`m terrified of crossing streets. I'm also very accident-prone...I think people aim for me.”
“James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.”

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