One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.
There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'
Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.
I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.
With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.
I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.
Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!
Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries.
