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humorous sarcasm science
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid. Arthur Conan Doyle
humorous sarcasm reason
I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.
humorous drinking mean
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.
humorous should-have quirky
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal. Bob Costas
humorous cards records
The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card. Dennis Ritchie
humorous disease problem
PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set. Edsger Dijkstra
humorous bad-ass men
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. Chuck Norris
humorous writing thinking
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story. Ann Beattie
humorous thinking bridges
If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge. Robert Benchley
writing important scene
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson
writing two my-family
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
writing journalism sometimes
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big. Anthony Shadid
writing way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
writing emotional levels
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level. Ben Marcus
writing reader
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. Ben Okri
writing night awake
I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night. Barbara Kingsolver
writing thinking talking
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.
writing funny-things discipline
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
thinking tomorrow
Tell that someone that you love, just what you're thinking of, If tomorrow never comes. Garth Brooks
thinking
Right now we're not even thinking about Iowa. Malcolm Scatliffe
thinking unique winning yankees
The Yankees are one of those unique organizations. All I'm thinking about is winning another World Series. That's it. Larry Bowa
thinking time
This is something I've been thinking about for a long time. It was time to do it.
thinking
This is something he was thinking about even before he was in that situation,
thinking
That's how I go into the game, ... I go in there thinking it's going to be up to me to make things happen.
thinking artist challenges
The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience. Brett Eldredge
thinking creative different
You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates. Brett Ratner
thinking jumping choices
I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.