A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. Max Eastman
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. Steve Jobs
A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have. Cathy Guisewite
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing. Richard Russo
A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time. Jeffrey Jones
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well. Oliver Herford
A minute later he came in and said, It was an idiotic thing of me to do, and I ask your pardon, Harker, most sincerely, I fear I must have frightened you terribly.
A minute later he came in and said, It was an idiotic thing of me to do, and I ask your pardon, Mrs.Harker, most sincerely, I fear I must have frightened you terribly.
A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.
Wes Bentley
