“Chances are, if we can't laugh at something, we can't think rationally about it.” — Clay A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Suppression is a form of social and intellectual terrorism which results in oppression.” — Jackson Taviri Copy Share Image
“Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.” — Lucia Berlin Copy Share Image
“On s’habitue aux défauts des autres quand on ne croit pas de son devoir de les corriger.” — Françoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“Time is but an extension of the Human desire for organization.” — Richard L. Foland Jr Copy Share Image
“Shall we see the world as we sit, look around relax, look, look, look, disengage our intellects, perceive nature our common sense.” — R.J.Askew Copy Share Image
I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing. — Richard Lewis Copy Share Image
I definitely am more observational of the people around me and how they interact and less introspective about myself. — Kyle Mooney Copy Share Image
“...and I was reminded…of the everday boredom of a life in espionage. One is always waiting for someone who does not show… — Charles McCarry Copy Share Image
“Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Norway...looked to Roosevelt "as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe…It is much as if Vermont should offhand… — Edmund Morris Copy Share Image
I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational… — Godfrey Copy Share Image
“She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'm such a product of my media diet... it's interesting that you say what I do is observational. It's observational as far… — Robert Sikoryak Copy Share Image
“I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
“By noon, in a gray February world, we had come down through snow flurries to land at Albany, and had taken off… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
I'm a very observational storyteller, and I'm always relational - a lot of stories stem from relationships, whether it's me with my… — Anjelah Johnson Copy Share Image
“A man always wants his friends to be a little in love with his beloved too.” — Carlene Bauer Copy Share Image
“Anger and stubborness are bestfriends, they need each other for fuel.” — Jackson Taviri Copy Share Image
Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but… — Jeremiah P. Ostriker Copy Share Image
“It's not what you're not sure of that gets you: It's when you just know it's okay, and you don't check.” — S.J. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Auden? Does he rhyme? I only like poetry that rhymes. All the best poets write in rhyme." "Really?" "Dr. Seuss and Shakespeare.… — Shiela Jane Copy Share Image
“One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
“The only ironic thing about that song is that it's called 'Ironic' and it is written by a woman who doesn't know… — Ed Byrne Copy Share Image
“We live in a uniform civilization, within well-defined cultural models: furnishings, decorative elements, blankets, record player have all been chosen among a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image