“Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.” NeedsWellsLooksRunningDesireHouseSpaceLaughingDoorsSkyColdInvolvedFitJokesWindowBlowHeatNerves Author:Aimee Bender
“we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame.” HumansHas BeensFactsSpiritSufferingSexCausesSubjectsHuman NatureFitWasteJokesShameInstinctSillyTreatedExpensesMisuse Book:Sex and Common-sense Source: Sex and Common-sense
“Any so-called leader who does not take this issue (climate change) seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead” DoeLeaderIssuesFitJokesTreatsClimateClimate Change Author:Barack Obama
“There are things that I won't joke about, but it's not because I don't think they're funny or they can't be made funny. It's just that they don't fit my particular skill set.” ThinkingMadeParticularFitSkillsJokes Author:Brad Williams
“I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits. I left home when I was sixteen and lived in places where it was very easy for me to have fallen the other way. I could have been on the large convoy because I was a woman and I was alone. In India, that's not a joke. I could have ended up very, very badly. I'm lucky that I didn't.” ThinkingWayHas BeensHomeArtistLeftEasyFitLuckyJokesIndiaOneselfFallenCould Have BeenSixteen Author:Arundhati Roy