#ff

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#i #just #kid #lot #stuff

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#sea #suffering

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#like #music #people #political #pop

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#difficult #parents #trace #very #your

Jealousy is the grave of affection. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#affection #grave

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#any #behind #effort #fabric #help

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#actor #being #great #know #learn

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#brains #definitely #effort #many #people

People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#be different #because #close #different #each