Michael On
Michael On
father taught influence
Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.
secret bed looks
The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.
unemployment wages economics
You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.
humor sight people
It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.
clothes naked
No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes.
humorous essence design
And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, which we call legs. The tables in this laboratory, ma'am, are as advanced in design as one will find anywhere in the world.
fog guarantees taj-mahal
One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog"...The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog.
lions speak ifs
If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.
summer song sweet
And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it before. Full of birdsong and summer perfumes, full of strange glimpses and intimations just out of the corner of my eye, of longings and sadness and undefined hopes.It has a name, this sweet disturbance. Its name is Lamorna.
world pages argument
For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems.
destination changed things-have-changed
Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.
interesting people stories
I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.
forever stories want
You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.
reading writing
I started writing as soon as I started reading.