#ck

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#always #argument #better #brick #carries

When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#eating #i #incorrect #keeps #me

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#believer #find #great #great believer #harder

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#ancient times #back #fall #had #lies

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#any #back #behind #bullet #crocodile

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#back #century #end #going #had

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#promised #set #sick #up #wounded

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#backgrounds #bring #come #completely #controversies

I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay? ↗

— Denis Leary

#ass #crack #i #my own #named

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ↗

— Norman Lear

#answer #back #call #called #dad