#um

People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy. ↗

— John Barrow

#assume #because #complete #fallacy #financial

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.' ↗

— Dave Barry

#achieved #full #had #human #human race

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ↗

— Dave Barry

#call #communication #development #history #human

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. ↗

— Dave Barry

#circumstances #never #night #pill #same

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it. ↗

— Dave Barry

#american consumers #any #consumers #fat #floor

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#fool #helping #how #humor #realize

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#everything #nobody #writer

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#everything #human #human thought #late #more

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#great #luminous #ones #stage

The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#conversation #daily #guide #instrument #must