A Quotes
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“A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.”
“A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.”
Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell
“A joke is a joke, and people put too much meaning behind it. They react to it in the wrong way. I mean, you can boo or laugh, and that's pretty much what you're supposed to do with jokes. You're not supposed to take it any further than that.”
“A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'”
“A joke is a very serious thing.”
“A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”
“A joke is either funny or it's not funny. If I hear a funny joke, you know what I do? I laugh, that's what I do. I don't start a focus group to see who got hurt by the joke.”
“A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“A joke is necessary at this time.”
Source: Here and Somewhere Else
“A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.”
“A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.”
“A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.”
“A joke sounds like a joke.
An insult sounds like an insult.
Most people, nowadays, trying to be funny, smuggle insult into jokes.”
Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes
“A joke that requires an apology wasn't a joke; it was a mistake masquerading as wit”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.”
“A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.”
Source: One Day
“A joke without comedic timing is a statement of pure insanity.”
Source: The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
“A joke's a very serious thing.”
“A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.”
Source: The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day
“A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”
Source: The Solitaire Mystery
“A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“A joker is the one who learns to laugh outside of happiness”
“A jolt activates the mind like nothing else.”
“A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts.”
“A journal is a self-empowering, self-realizing map we create for ourselves to better our lives.”
Source: Lead Us To A Place: Your Spiritual Journey Through Life's Seasons
“A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and feel your character as a person and then put yourself into that person's mind, place and time. Trying to stay in that person, place and time is a challenge when surrounded by this very different world of the 21st century.”
“A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills the crosscurrents of worry, drawing to focus the essential though patterms that best defines us, intersecting those thoughts with the condition of our life at that exact moment. A journal is one of the few anchors the human condition allows us.”
“A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.”
“A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.”
“A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.”
“A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.”
“A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.”
“A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.”
“A journalist in America told us that we'd [with Johhny Depp] been working together for 10 decades, so we're a lot older than we look! We actually knew each other before the invention of cinema, so we have quite a good, long relationship.”
“A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
“A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.”
“A journalist is a reporter out of a job.”
“A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?”
“A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude.”
Source: Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out
“A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot the horizon in fine weather. He reports the drifting castaway whom the ship can save. He peers through fog and storm to give warning of dangers ahead. He is not thinking of his wages or of the profits of his owners. He is there to watch over the safety and the welfare of the people who trust him.”
“A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be 'He did very little harm'. And that's not easy. Most people seem to me to do a great deal of harm. If I could be remembered as having done very little, that would suit me.”
“A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling the reader. Balance should not be a smokescreen for laziness.”
Source: Journalism
“A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.”
“A journey away from yourself does not exist. Embrace your strength and vulnerabilities, this could be the greatest lesson you can ever learn.”
Source: Mastering Success: The Key to Self Empowerment and Higher Consciousness
“A journey begins after a good nights rest... or does it?”
Source: The Red Lands
“A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is the journey that makes or unmakes you.”
“A journey for you is to find love in someone that means it will end in horror. A horror that will find its source of love in a gentle soul. Return to me at the bar by 7pm sharp and we will make love again in a new location. Do not bother finding me if I don't show up. Sincerely, Celeste
Celeste Rayne”
Source: Happily Ever After
“A journey indeed, in an emotional roller-coaster.”