“... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.” FiveStyleSeriousMassHundredRemainsStoresSignificantVideoEnterpriseTrendsPotatoesCablesCouchesPopcornAvailabilityLife StyleSerious Life Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.” IfsMatterHappensLaughingHavensSeriousBattleHundredHarderSense Of HumorHalfwayHave A Laugh Author:Jack Bruce
“I was one of the serious studiers. I'm not somebody who just shows up and gets a hundred on a test.” ShowsSeriousHundredTests Author:Brooklyn Sudano
“For more than a hundred years much complaint has been made of the unmethodical way in which schools are conducted, but it is only within the last thirty that any serious attempt has been made to find a remedy for this state of things. And with what result? Schools remain exactly as they were.” WayYearsHas BeensMadeStatesSchoolLastsResultsSeriousHundredThirtyRemedyComplaints Author:John Amos Comenius
“Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. It were better for mankind that the millions of the rich were thrown into the sea than spent to encourage the slothful, the drunken, the unworthy. Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent - so spent, indeed, as to produce the very evils which it hopes to mitigate or cure.” TodayEvilRaceMillionsRichWiseSeaMankindProduceSeriousThousandHundredDollarsCharityObstaclesImprovementNineCuresFiftyThrownBeing WiseUnworthy Author:Andrew Carnegie
“Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can, and I have some great help: there are almost two hundred cartoons included in the book, including dozens from the brilliant Bizarro strip.” I CanTwoBookHelpingAnimalRightsSubjectsSeriousHundredIncludingBrilliantAnimal RightsDozenCartoonSerious Subjects Author:Karen Dawn
“But the question is - are we deporting a couple hundred people for show or are we actually making a serious effort to remove everybody who's got a final order of removal? When I say enforcement theater, what I mean is a kind of pretend enforcement.” PeopleKindMeanShowsOrderEffortSeriousCoupleHundredTheaterFinalsRemoveEnforcementRemoval Author:Mark Krikorian