Methuens Monographs Quotes & Sayings

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation. — Robert Mankoff

He took in the bubbles covering her and smiled. "I think that's enough."
"Enough?"
"To get me clean." Taking one step forward, he slipped and slided up and down the length of her body. — Robin Bielman

Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

My family never went skiing. My dad was afraid of heights and my mom felt that a vacation was only a vacation if it involved reading at least two books on the beach. — Lisa Greenwald

As in Northern Ireland, children, shoppers, ordinary working men were all suitable targets. Bombs in department stores and pubs would have even more impact in the context of the widely anticipated social breakdown brought on by industrial decline, high unemployment, rising inflation and an energy crisis. — Ian McEwan

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens. — Helen Keller

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept. — Wallace Stegner

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality. — Linus Pauling

As chief, I will represent my people in many different ways and might never know which particular action is destined to matter more than another, thus, all my actions should be considered potentially important and worthy of my best effort. — Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels. — William Gibson

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate. — Noam Chomsky

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather. — Amos Lee