#com

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#adjustment #combination #does #door #each

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#chapter #come #culture #every #exactly

Love is faith in action." ~R. Alan Woods [2006] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#faith #love #mercy #r-alan-woods #faith

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#common #interpret #language #mankind #means

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#anybody #come #course #critic #dark

And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bowl #central #comedy #could #creators

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. ↗

— James Wolcott

#become #been #design #iconography #like

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective. ↗

— James Wolcott

#comedy #defective #episodic #explain #factory

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable. ↗

— James Wolcott

#arrived #buster #carrey #clowns #comedy

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bathe #both #bridal #comedies #comedy