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)
Tag: wit criticism american-idol judging
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]
Tag: humor wit the-paris-review wisecracks
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.)
Tag: wit criticism american-idol judging
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.
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
Mark TwainTag: humor books writing on-writing wit
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
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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 PaineTag: wit government common-sense monarchy
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 AllendeDon't let the muggles get you down.
J.K. RowlingTag: wit encouragement muggles
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 BradburyTag: reading writing philosophy censorship wit digression
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