#on

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#about #american #blind #englishman #leading

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#function #inform #make #money #press

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#appetite #apprenticeship #check #enough #first

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#boot #enough #hard #just #long

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#ascetic #considered #debilitating #dispense #man

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#asked #bbc #book #english #favorite

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#businessperson #dresses #i #make #run

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#american #any #aware #belong #breakthrough

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one. ↗

— Wendy Liebman

#contributed #funny #harvard #house #i

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled. ↗

— Wendy Liebman

#asking #been #comedians #comedy #e-mail