J.L. Carr Quotes
Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.
The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels.
The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small.
In the end, that's what it comes down to with Mitt Romney. He's running as the non-Barack Obama.
You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called "swift-boating."
Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.
I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.
I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.
After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.
Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the same way as clichés or old wives' tales do.
I don't think young people should have bottoms, they're too young for that sort of thing.
It had to be hammered home quite a bit because I didn't see any humour in my life at all.
Even if you're doing the national insurance awards, there's still that excitement when you wonder who is going to win, er, best premiums.
It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.
Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.
I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't?
We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us.
A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.
We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.
I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.
I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us.
In popular books and articles, information technology writer Carr has worried over the ways that algorithms like those employed by Google are reshaping the ways we think.
The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.
I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.
When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though, it's very hard to read.
I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.
A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.
