"I know electric knives are excellent for carving……" — John Hodgman
"I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams."
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65 Quotes by John Hodgman
John Hodgman has 65 quotes on this site.
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We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and…
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For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it…
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This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
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This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose…
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Tonally, there was no discussion; I just don’t know any other way to do it. I don’t want to make…
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
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Specificity is the soul of narrative.
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I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance…
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Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so…
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There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.
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As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or…
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Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where…
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