"The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application."

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Source : Joseph Epstein (1979). “Familiar territory: observations on American life”, Oxford University Press

Joseph Epstein

#Waiting Quotes #Conversation Quotes #Application Quotes

“Life's too short to not be around nice people.”

Source : "Finding the Fountain of Youth / Where will UCSF biochemist Cynthia Kenyon's age-bending experiments with worms lead us?". Interview with David Ewing Duncan, www.sfgate.com. May 29, 2005.
“As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.”
“I think it's the wrong way around to say when you get older move to the country. I think when you get older you move to New York. If you're a nice broad they'll look after you.”
“Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.”
“I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point.”

Source : "Shiri Appleby Interview" by Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 8, 2005.
“We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.”
“It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.”
“I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.”

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