“Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.”
Sherman Alexie book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
“Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.”
Sherman Alexie book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Newt Gingrich (1943) Professor, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Iowa fundraiser dinner, quoted in * 2011-12-01
Newt Gingrich expands on his support for child labor
Paul
West
Los Angeles Times
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/01/nation/la-na-1202-gingrich-child-labor-20111202
suggesting poor children be given paid jobs in the schools they attend
2010s
“You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.”
P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist
The Bachelor Home Companion (1986)
“Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer
To Mme. Streicher, in 1817, or 1818, after having dismissed an otherwise good housekeeper because she had told a falsehood to spare his feelings. in Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words http://www.fullbooks.com/Beethoven-the-Man-and-the-Artist-as-Revealed2.html by Ludwig van Beethoven, edited by Friedrich Kerst <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Variant: Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
“Personally, I would forgo any other comfort to drink clean water.”
Wilfred Thesiger (1910–2003) British explorer
Source: The Life Of My Choice (1987), p. 153.
Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 75
Miley Cyrus (1992) American actor and singer-songwriter
Canada.com http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/movie-guide/story.html?id=6184358b-2f14-44ee-9e34-a1b0132b8934 (November 7, 2008)