#ny

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#definition #intellectual #listen #lone #lone ranger

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#becomes #books #clearer #consequence #function

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#fear #kill #many #neighbours #say

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#curiously #earth #fate #good #many

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#art #aspires #carry #condition #every

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#any #before #cigar #easy #empty

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#appears #comes #languages #man #many

I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny. ↗

— Dane Cook

#better #funny #get #i #i can

I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it. ↗

— Tim Conway

#because #enjoy #enjoy life #i #life

I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done. ↗

— John Conyers

#am #anyone #body #done #i