To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
Beverley Nichols
Recitation: by Male by Female
I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home and writing while baby-sitting my son, who hardly ever slept. So I wrote in twenty-minute patches. Some of that early stuff is just dreadful. I got a thousand rejects.
Joe R. Lansdale
HomeSonFireWifeWritingEarly
For me, it's a purity thing about the joke itself. It's a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that's a legitimate item you have there. For me, it's nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It's just not what I'm in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh.
Jerry Seinfeld
WordsMeSearchLaughFindingYou
Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.
Jenn Suhr
HighEventLowsPole
Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.
Townsend Harris
FamilyNationHoldExpectMustAny
The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing.
Rodney Brooks
BuildingUnderstandingDoingYou
I like to think we're all the sum of our experiences, so no one has my perspective.
Ronny Chieng
PerspectiveThinkExperiencesSum
The only rule is never be bored.
David Shields
NeverBoredRuleOnly
I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I loved movies and television growing up, but I'd never thought about it as, 'Oh, that guy Denzel Washington is employed as an actor.'
Ato Essandoh
TechnologyScienceJobGrowing Up
In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.
Shawn Amos
StyleParentingBabyUniqueHigh
Some venues are better run than others. Sometimes it's just maddening to deal with full dinners being served in front of your face. You can have a good or bad show anywhere.
Todd Barry
GoodFaceBetterYouBadRun
Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.
Nina Easton
LifeLeadershipSuccessParentsYou
The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.
Leo Buscaglia
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