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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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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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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
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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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...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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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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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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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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An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt.
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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
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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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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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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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Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
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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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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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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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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
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I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
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I think watching him (Peter) win was as exciting as watching the Red Sox win the World Series. He has the engine and strength to accomplish whatever his brain wishes to do. It's not easy to do what he does, but he can do it all out there.
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The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a gift we received from countless generations we never knew, a gift that only we now possess and only we can give to our children. That unique gift, of course, is the gift of ourselves. Whatever we can do to give that gift, and to help others receive it, is worth the challenge of all our human endeavor.
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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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