"In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows."

-- Michael Mandelbaum

#Book Quotes #Hearing Quotes #Serious Quotes

“I cant really imagine life without Formula One,”
“There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.”
“The crowd response has always been great, we always have fun at the shows and we will definitely be back representing our album to give people entertainment with a stage show, most rap shows are boring.”
“When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic fallibility of their reason, and the degree in which it is distorted by the will, when, above all, they have acquired that love of truth which a constant appeal to private judgment at last produces, they will never dream that guilt can be associated with an honest conclusion, or that one class of arguments should be stifled by authority.”

Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1870). “History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe”, p.72
“The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.”

Source : Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.8, Random House
“Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.”
“I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.”
“The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.”

Source : Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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