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«To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer -- but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.»
«The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.»
Author: William Davis
| About:
Humor,
Kindness
| Keywords:
five, humor, kind of, minutes, seconds, second thought, ten, ten seconds, The Thing
«People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.»
Author: Jesse Owens
(Athlete)
| Keywords:
accumulations, at best, bag, closet, incongruous, matching, outfit, outfits, outfitted, patchwork, patchwork quilt, quilt, quilted, quilts, seconds, Second Coming, ten seconds, The Second Coming
«Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.»
Author: Sam Levenson
(Author, Humorist)
| About:
Birth,
Children,
Women
| Keywords:
giving birth, globe, seconds, ten seconds
«LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion --thus:_Major Premise_: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man._Minor Premise_: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore --_Conclusion_: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accordance, arithmetical, certainty, combining, conclusion, consisting, dig, double, limitations, major, minor, minor premise, misunderstanding, obtain, piece of work, posthole, premise, premised, reasoning, seconds, sixty, strict, syllogism, syllogisms, The Art of Reasoning
«My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years, months, days, hours, or minutes remain that Carpe Diem 'is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow?'»
Author: Lord Byron
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
agreeably, carpe diem, crop, cropped, Diem, months, obliged, obliging, passed, seconds, thirty, Thirty one, viciously
«Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would ho»
«Lady: I've been waiting for two days and so far, no one's gotten in yet [the doctor's office].Samantha: I was once told I wouldnt' be able to get backstage to see Mick Jagger. Well I did get backstage...and I blew him. [Silence] Excuse me... I don't know if this is an appropriate question to ask...Lady: I think we passed appropriate a few seconds ago. Samantha: What kind of cancer do you have?Lady: Breast. Samantha: Breast! Me too. I'm curious...Do you have children?Lady: I'm a nun. Samantha: You have none. Lady: No, no, no...I AM a nun. But that doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy your Mick Jagger story. Samantha: I thought that nuns had to wear...Lady: Oh, I haven't worn a habbit in years. Samantha: So then...you don't have sex? Lady: No. Samantha: Never had sex?Lady: No. Samantha: Ohh. [thoughtful silence] Just one more. Lady: Go right ahead. Samantha: Are you allowed to masturbate?Lady: [thinking] I never asked. But thanks for getting my mind off cancer for the first time in a week. Samantha: Happy to help.»
Author: Sex and the City
(TV series)
| Keywords:
appropriate, backstage, blew, Cancer, for the first time, gotten, have sex, Jagger, Just One, masturbate, Mick, Mick Jagger, nun, Nuns, pass off, seconds, Second Thoughts, The Doctor, thoughtful, wear off, worn