#wit

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ↗

— Mark Twain

#before #ideas #marriage #perceived #relation

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it. ↗

— Mark Udall

#deeply #deny #despite #documentation #holocaust

One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#been #capital #established #even #features

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ↗

— John Updike

#dreams #incite #nature #possibility #them

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#good #good way #having #offer #people

I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife. ↗

— Karl Urban

#could #effectively #i #i do #support

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#been #british #had #influence #never

I figured out how to catch fugitives without a gun. ↗

— John Walsh

#figured #fugitives #gun #how #i

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#cannot #comfortable #his #made #man

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#big #bloke #enough #out #pointing