Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
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At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable. ~James Fenton
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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can't. ~Richard Asher
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness. ~Yotam Ottolenghi
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Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride. ~Elizabeth Chadwick
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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I think inspiration is always around; it is just a question of whether or not you are noticing it. ~John Green
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The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. ~Leos Carax
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
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I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl. ~Ray Toro
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When a con speaks watch his hands. ~Jewish Proverb
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God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision. ~Charles Stanley
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. ~Carrie Fisher
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
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