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oddities feelings enlightenment
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things. Alan Watts
oddities exactly-is effort
Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating? Charles Krauthammer
oddities perspective world
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. Douglas Adams
oddities lobster looks
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too. Dean Young
oddities people may
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found. Clifford Geertz
oddities standing-out
The things that stand out are often the oddities. Pierre Salinger
oddities laughing judgment
I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something. Eugene Mirman
oddities littles feels
I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd. Martha Plimpton
oddities sorrow faults
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow. George Eliot
laughing words-of-wisdom victory
Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory. Carrie Chapman Catt
laughing people want
Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh. Carl Reiner
laughing people may
Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.
laughing acting actors
I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep. Bette Davis
laughing
It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material. Berkeley Breathed
laughing people internet
Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone. Bertrand Russell
laughing officers police proud
You are laughing at our police officers but I'm proud of them, Rick Baker
laughing pity should
Were't not for laughing, I should pity him. William Shakespeare
laughing shaking shocked start
I think they're a little shocked at first. . . . Then they start laughing or grinning or shaking my hand, Shirley Manson
judgment ifs knows
If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about? Beck
judgment rush simple view
I think my constituents' view is very simple -- no rush to judgment, don't be hasty, don't do anything too quick. Charles Schumer
judgment quick thou weak
Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgment weak Homer
judgment though
Though with judgment we on things reflect,/ Our will determines, not our intellect. Edmund Waller
judgment law learned people prevent proper rules themselves
I have learned how people think about themselves and others. Law and rules prevent proper judgment! Greg Mitchell
judgment positions quickly style tested
He was put into positions that tested very quickly his style and his judgment,
judgment profit draws
A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .
judgment should judgment-of-others
I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am. Barbara Deming
judgmental hard
I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental. Jane Fonda