No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.” — William James Copy Share Image
In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You want to know the story? I'd be happy to tell you. I think I have just enough caloric energy stored up… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
“In a theater, it happened that a fire started offstage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel,… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
After Birth is a fast-talking, opinionated, moody, funny, and slightly desperate account of the attempt to recover from having a baby. It… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“JAY: No really. Be secure. Pretend I'm a sperm cell. Here. I take the string out of the... hood of my sweatshirt,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research is extraordinary;… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
... no wisdom that [my kitten] may gain by experience and reflection hereafter will compensate for the loss of her present hilarity. — William Cowper Copy Share Image