Norway...looked to Roosevelt "as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe....It is much as if Vermont should offhand try the experiment of having a king.
Edmund MorrisTags: humor observational
It's not what you're not sure of that gets you: It's when you just know it's okay, and you don't check.
S.J. LewisTags: observational
Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.
Bill LoguidiceTags: motivational inspirational experience observational wisdome
The only ironic thing about that song is that it's called 'Ironic' and it is written by a woman who doesn't know what irony is. That's quite ironic when you think about it.
(on Alanis Morissette's 'Ironic')
Tags: humor comedy irony observational
The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.
John SteinbeckTags: classic observational insperational
Chances are, if we can't laugh at something, we can't think rationally about it.
Clay A. JohnsonTags: humor observational
As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.
David ByrneTags: social-commentary observational
We live in a uniform civilization, within well-defined cultural models: furnishings, decorative elements, blankets, record player have all been chosen among a certain number of given possibilities. What can they reveal to you about what she is really like?
Italo CalvinoTags: observational uniformity human-race
Shall we see the world as we sit, look around relax, look, look, look, disengage our intellects, perceive nature our common sense.
R.J.AskewTags: observational
Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.
Neal StephensonTags: observational suburbia
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