#hum

Under the stars,I tried to sleep,but for once in my life couldn't.My mutant super power-the ability to nod off at at the drop of a hat,any time,anywhere-had deserted me. ↗

— James Lovegrove

#sleep #superpowers #age

Nat: Maybe you broke something. Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down! Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again. ↗

— Herb Gardner

#aging #humor #philosophy #age

Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages. ↗

— David Lodge

#age

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. ↗

— Jeff Marder

#age

I'm thirty,", i said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honour". ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#humor #age

The ages live in history through their anachronisms. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #wilde #age

If a writer rewrites an essay, people who read the new version are unlikely to complain that their thoughts have been broken by some newly introduced incompatibility. ↗

— Paul Graham

#age

It’s not easy to be God. ↗

— Péter Zilahy

#coming-of-age #dark-humour #sacrifice #age

The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one’s realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry. ↗

— Josef Pieper

#human-nature #humanity #inspirational #truth #wisdom

[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#benedict-cumberbatch #bilbo-baggins #film #humor #martin-freeman