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Kingsley Amis quote: "The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing..."

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

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In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary. Lennart Meri
Oscar Wilde quote: "It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free."
It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free. Oscar Wilde
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach. William Barclay
Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens. Sue Townsend
I feel sorry for little babies... When a little baby is born into this cold world, he's confused! He's frightened! He needs something to cheer him up... The way I see it, as soon as a baby is born, he should be issued a banjo! Charles M. Schulz
Jules Laforgue quote: "Oh, what a day-to-day business life is."
Oh, what a day-to-day business life is. Jules Laforgue
Elijah Wood quote: "So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others."
So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others. Elijah Wood
On the ride back south, she tapped all the anger-management tricks they'd given her in job training. They played across her windshield like PowerPoint slides. Number One: It's not about you. Number Two: Your plan is not the world's. Number Three: The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. (24) Richard Powers
I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last. Midge Ure
Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors. Suzanne Fields
William Howard Taft quote: "A government is for the benefit of all the people."
A government is for the benefit of all the people. William Howard Taft
Clifton Fadiman quote: "The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the..."
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. Clifton Fadiman
It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place. Nate Ruess
These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?' Giada De Laurentiis
She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious. John Crowley