Ideas generally come in a very complicated form, and you've got to strip them down to make them usable. Boil a gag down to its simplest form, and it is readily discernible to anybody who sees it.
Carl Barks
Related Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth. BOOZOO CHAVIS Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK There's a huge opportunity for someone to come in and make this easier for the consumer and provide ... AAMER BAIG They taught me different was wrong. ANI DIFRANCO A person who keeps always his profile down-to-earth doesn't have to worry with those who surround or... ANUJ SOMANY My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all. GEMMA ARTERTON Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the... CHUCK JONES Don't take it easy until life goes down to your level. EMILY THOMAS It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I like down-to-earth people. AMOS LEE I'm just a down-to-earth guy. ACE FREHLEY There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Don't Just Let it Happen, Make it Happen! JUAN A. JIMENEZ Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. EDMUND BURKE How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think. JULIETTE BINOCHE I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back. TINIE TEMPAH I'm down to earth; people sense that and they appreciate it. DREW CAREY What makes sense these days?
Sense is common;
Common sense is rare GWEN MERKELBACH We're supposed to capture what's in the air and give a form to it. The artist is like an antenna, al... FERNANDO MEIRELLES It?s not as complicated procedure to take them down. DAVID WRIGHT I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES The media like to boil down a complicated thing to a sound bite. It's been frustrating for us and co... MARCIA STEFANICK To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistak... EMMETT F. FIELDS A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it sim... LAURA MARLING For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most... BO BURNHAM Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one. WILL ROGERS He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. PITTACUS LORE Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it. LEMONY SNICKET You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS We made it a ball game and I told them that it would come down to who executes better in the end. JASON HARLOW It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them lo... TIM WALKER The strategy, in its simplest form, is to get what I call a disproportionate share of new people mov... FRED GREEN If Arsenal continue in this form, it'll be difficult for anybody to beat them. FABIO CAPELLO We just write our notes down and document it on a complaint form, and the person assigned will make ... DOUG VOEGELI My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society. ABHIJIT NASKAR I've always been down-to-earth about money. CHYNNA PHILLIPS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON We solicited ideas from anyone who is a member of our club. After we got the names, we went through ... MARK MOORE You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO... OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really w... MARTIN PARR I tried to come at it a different way this time, ... Make them put the ball in play [and] cut down o... EDWIN JACKSON It's one of those things you never get tired of. It's flying in its purest and simplest form. And it... GREG PETERSON The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of yo... TOM DOUGLAS She's very authentic. She's involved in opera and she sees it for what it is, looking at all aspects... KATHY HOTCHNER There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w... ALBERT CAMUS And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s... ALBERT CAMUS And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ... ALBERT CAMUS You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ... ALBERT CAMUS The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t... ALBERT CAMUS …Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o... ALBERT CAMUS For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every... ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis... ALBERT CAMUS
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