It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns"
(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero'
by Mariah Carey)

Simon Cowell

Mots clés wit criticism american-idol judging

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There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words."

[Interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1956]

Dorothy Parker

Mots clés humor wit the-paris-review wisecracks

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You sounded like Dolly parton on helium."
(After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)

Simon Cowell

Mots clés wit criticism american-idol judging

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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;
Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,
That gives us back the image of our mind.
As shades more sweetly recommend the light,
So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

Alexander Pope

Mots clés poetry wit

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A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Mark Twain

Mots clés humor books writing on-writing wit

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I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

Mel Brooks

Mots clés humor writing wit

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One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

Thomas Paine

Mots clés wit government common-sense monarchy

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I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.

Isabel Allende

Mots clés story wit

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Don't let the muggles get you down.

J.K. Rowling

Mots clés wit encouragement muggles

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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Ray Bradbury

Mots clés reading writing philosophy censorship wit digression

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