"Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game."

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Source : 1946 How to be an Alien.

George Mikes

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“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”
“Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.”
“The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.”
“When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.”
“Men must go out of their minds.”

Source : Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”
“Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.”
“I'm not sure that I could give notes to someone that I revere. That's a general challenge of directing, giving notes to someone you revere. The other big contribution to this, which most people I show footage to take note of is Mauro Fiore's cinematography is unbelievable.”
“We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.”

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