"humour"タグの名言

Faith is a sure foundation.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.

I love Sherlock Holmes. I've got all his books, leather-bound. What I thought was great about Sherlock Holmes was that not only was he a supersleuth, he was also a hard worker. Not only did he go out and solve the crimes, he came home and wrote it all down. Fantastic. That's why I admire him.

Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.

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While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I’m so very bad at it. It’s the greatest peace when I’m in a scene, and it’s just me and the character, that’s it, that’s where I want to live my life.

There is nothing better for man to manage his own affairs.

If you want to scare your enemies make more friends. If you want to scare your friends, make more enemies. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Marriages fail because they are either taken too seriously or taken for granted. They should be taken rather like coffee – not too cold and not too hot. If too bitter, should be sweetened a little with sugar. If too dark, should be lightened a little with milk. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

A great family consists of a father who is a hard nut to crack, a mother who is a hard nut to chew and children who are hard nuts to swallow. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.