#then

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

You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#confident #defensive #feel #going #hesitant

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive. ↗

— Richard Eberhart

#any #central #death #establish #feelings

Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#hard #important #more #out #put

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose. ↗

— Blake Edwards

#doctor #find #help #idiot #just

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#found #glory #i #know #later

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#destroyed #disputes #establishing #force #foundation

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#god #honest #honest man #lawyer #man

Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it. ↗

— Zac Efron

#fine #gay #handle #honestly #i

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely. ↗

— Greg Egan

#book #boom #easier #edition #first