Taking the time to polish
Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, ‘I’m thinking about you and I want to please you.’
– Andrew Hudgins
More Entries
- Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. – Andrew Jackson
- Instead of thinking that’s a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists. – Alison Moyet
- Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? – Rita Rudner
- The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when
- Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. – Will Rogers
- Because I’m a guy, I think what you’re wearing is fine. I thought what you were wearing five minutes ago was fine, too. Either pair of shoes is fine. With the belt or without it looks fine. Your hair is fine. You look fine. Can we just go now?
- With Congress, every time they make a joke it’s a law; and every time they make a law it’s a joke. – Anonymous
- Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. Kin Hubbard
- My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, ‘Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song …’ – Al Jarreau
- One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you’re not spending enough time thinking about what you’re designing. – Joseph Altuzarra