“I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.” ThinkingWorldShouldPersonsHas BeensFeltMeditationWasteJokesShould HaveSurfaceWasting TimeHollowShould Have BeenFads Author:David Lynch
“Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.” ShouldScienceJokesIdealsShould HaveMathematicsMathProof Author:Ronald Graham
“The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.” ShouldLittlesHomeNightLaughingSunGoneStupidJokesShould HaveShining Author:Sy Safransky
“I don't get the animosity when someone tells a joke that you don't like. Whereas if someone made a dish that you don't like if you went to a restaurant, you would either try another dish or you just don't go back to that restaurant. But you don't say like, "I did not like the hamburger here. This restaurant should be shut down. It should be banned from making hamburgers. No one else should have these hamburgers." And everyone else is like, "No, you wouldn't do that."” IfsShouldTryingMadeJokesShould HaveRestaurantsDishesBannedHamburgersAnimosity Author:Brad Williams
“For me, a tour show should have a narrative; it should have an arc. It shouldn't just be, "Here's one joke, here's another joke." That's not my style. They all have to somehow link together.” ShouldShowsTogetherStyleJokesShould HaveNarrativeLinksArcs Author:John Bishop
“What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.” IfsShouldChildrenUseHandsJokesShould HaveDeny Book:Alice in Wonderland Source: Alice in Wonderland
“We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.” ThinkingKnowsShouldStoriesFoundMemoriesForgetCommonAliveJokesShould HaveStaying Alive Book:Kartography Source: Kartography
“'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.' 'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently. 'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.” ThinkingShouldWritingMeanChildrenImportantUseSpeakHonestyJokesRedShould HaveComplainingQueensSpeak The TruthInterruptedThink Before You SpeakRed Queen Book:Alice in Wonderland Source: Alice in Wonderland