The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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To have achieved core profitability and steady growth within such a short window of time is a testament to the remarkable dedication of our staff and board, as well as the community's overwhelming support of a truly local institution.
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We're just asking people to kind of look at how they're getting their comedy a little bit differently. Since it's not joke-driven in a traditional sense, the jokes are coming out of how we ratchet up the size of the elephant in the room. If you're invested in the characters and you're onboard with them on an emotional level, that laugh will come out of a relatable place.
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
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Cruelty has cursed the human family for countless ages. It is almost impossible for one to be cruel to animals and kind to humans. If children are permitted to be cruel to their pets and other animals, they easily learn to get the same pleasure from the misery of fellow-humans. Such tendencies can easily lead to crime.
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Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
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One sometimes finds advice about life in the oddest places. I saw a plastic bag the other day that warned me 'To avoid danger of suffocation, keep away from babies and small children.' And they always seemed so cute and harmless!
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A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
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I Schweiz har dom haft broderskärlek, femhundra år av demokrati och fred - och vad har dom åstadkommit? Gökuret!
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All that kills abundant living, let it from the earth be banned: pride of status, race or schooling, dogmas that obscure your plan....
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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
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...someone might slip dragon dung in it again eh, Perce? said Fred. That was a sample of fertiliser from Norway! said Percy, going very red in the face, It was nothing personal! It was, Fred whispered to Harry, as they got up from the table. We sent it.
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An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt.
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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
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You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
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A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
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Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
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Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
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I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
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