#do

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#every #every man #go #high #himself

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. ↗

— Mark Twain

#good #impressive #lightning #thunder #work

. . . and what are you exactly, my friend? Their subordinate? Their employee? Or, I would suggest, their equal? That's what young Karl would certainly have said, and probably still does. Unless he's no longer alive.' Dodger gave Solomon and strange look and Solomon hastened to clarify. "'Mmmm, as I recall, if you go around telling people that they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden, but nevertheless -- people being who they are -- don't want to know. They can get quite nasty about it.' (205) ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#equality #rage-against-the-machine #revolution #equality

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#down #like #love #missile #our time

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do? ↗

— Lynda Barry

#awfulness #bother #gotten #hate #i

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that. ↗

— Todd Barry

#doing #end #i #involved #lot

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport. ↗

— Todd Barry

#humankind #i #i do #like #love

I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it. ↗

— Todd Barry

#down #friends #got #had #i

I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written. ↗

— Todd Barry

#ever #everything #go #had #i

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things. ↗

— Todd Barry

#being #being funny #call #characters #comedy