Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

E. W. Howe

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Barbara Kingsolver

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

Helen Garner

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

Jeffrey Kluger

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.

Alan Moore

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

Bill Cosby

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

Edward de Bono

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.

Emma McLaughlin

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

E. B. White

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

H. L. Mencken

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

Jasper Fforde

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

Laura Schlessinger

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

Marilyn Manson

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

Tracy McMillan

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

Tracy Morgan

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

Dani Shapiro

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

William Irwin Thompson

In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'

P. J. O'Rourke