#humour

Time to start getting more sleep. This beautiful physique needs royal treatment. ↗

— Elizabeth Rudnick

#sleep #beauty

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more acute, when he sent off various applications to enlist in the armed forces. I didn't want to be involved in this decision either way, especially since I was being regularly taunted for not having 'sent' any of my children to fight in the wars of resistance that I supported. (As if I could 'send' anybody, let alone a grown-up and tough and smart young man: what moral imbeciles the 'anti-war' people have become.) ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civilisation #courage #enemies #fathers #humour

So? I know lots of beautiful women. Nova wanted to chase... I merely obliged her by running. ↗

— D.D. Chant

#broken-city #funny #humour #novel #beauty

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#humour #irony #show-business #wit #business

He begged hard, and said he couldn't play—a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn't a musician in the country that could. ↗

— Mark Twain

#mark-twain #music #musican #music

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#show-business #television #business

I don't like you two going off on you won. Just remember: behave. If I hear about any funny business, I will ground you until the Styx freezes over. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#coach-hedge #humour #river-styx #threat #business

Cave basilischium! The rex of serpenti, tant pleno of poison that it all shines dehors! Che dicam, il veleno, even the stink comes dehors and kills you! Poisons you...And it has black spots on his back, and a head like a coq, and half goes erect over the terra, and half on the terra like the other serpents. And it kills the bellula...' 'The bellula?' 'Oc! Parvissimum animal, just a bit plus longue than the rat, and also called the musk-rat. And so the serpe and the botta. And when they bite it, the bellula runs to the fenicula or to the cicerbita and chews it, and comes back to the battaglia. And they say it generates through the oculi, but most say they are wrong.' I asked him what he was doing with a basilisk and he said that was his business. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#macaronic #business

Step up to red alert." Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb." - Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf ↗

— Rob Grant

#red-dwarf #science-fiction #sf #change

Costin's contagious, dimpled smile was positively breath taking on his handsome face. She took in his appearance quickly and liked how he hadn't changed who he was for her party. He didn't try to look fancy or be something he wasn't. His un-tucked dress shirt and jeans fit him perfectly and a little voice inside her whispered that he was freaking hot. She called that voice her inner Jen. Jacque and Jen did not know about her inner Jen. It was her little secret when she needed a boost of confidence. Sally From Beyond the Veil ↗

— Quinn Loftis

#jen #sally #change