In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia (184

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

Josephus Daniels

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

Neil Gaiman

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of 5 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far.

Marta Kristen

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

Keith Richards

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen

It is the mind that makes the body.

Sojourner Truth

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

Gary North

'Breaking Bad' is the best, the greatest, the most amazing thing I have ever watched on television.

Tony Kaye

I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!

Mila Kunis