#tickle

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bloggers #briefings #correspondents #day #days

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#associate #borrowing #death #i #i can

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#ear #feather #intellect #laws #limit

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#approaching #electronic #fancy #happens #levels

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze. ↗

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#i #i see #no reason #polishing #reason

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#child #kindly #law #nature #pleased

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#because #breaks #dangerous #dangerous thing #era

Love tickles parts of you that, prior to its influence, you didn't even know could feel. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#richelle #richelle-goodrich #tickle #love