“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Tag: humour
Hello Kitty …
“Jenna slipped in wearing an outfit that I can only describe as Hello Kitty Goes Goth.”
— Rachel Hawkins, Demonglass
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Deadline
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
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To Be In Harmony |
It Takes People |
There is Enough
“We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren’t there enough of those in the world?”
— Rick Riordan, “The Red Pyramid”
“What The Angels Eat”
“The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world’s luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.”
— Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson
Like a Grapefruit
“Life… is like a grapefruit. Well, it’s sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It’s got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.”
(Douglas Adams, “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”)
Unknown Travel
“Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.”
(Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Unknown Book 6600339”)
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