Smart Openers, Closers, and One-Liners
The Perfect Quote
Smart Openers, Closers, and One-Liners
The Perfect Quote
A well-delivered one-liner is a sign of wit. The definition of wit is 'a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humor.' Wit implies mental sharpness, inventiveness, and keen intelligence.
Merriam-Webster
Next to being witty myself, the next best thing is to quote another's wit.
Christian N. Bovey
It's funny because it's true.
Sarah Cooper, Comedian
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Have you ever noticed what golf spells backward?
Al Boliska
The difference between having an entrepreneurial idea and executing it, is the difference between looking at the moon,
and getting there.
Robert Bostick
Did you hear about the company that offered $100 for each money-saving idea submitted by its employees? The first prize went to the employee who suggested the award be cut to $50.
Matt Silverman-
The best way to start a speech is, "I'm going to make this quick."
Robert Bostick
In business meetings and emails today everyone assumes B2B stands for
Boring to Boring.
Jon Buchan
You need your body to function well to be productive at work.
Your job is to keep it fed, rested, and motivated.
Robots don't need any of that.
Hence their appeal.
Robert Bostick
Airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
Anonymous
When I die I want my last words to be,
"I left a million dollars under the.."
Unknown
I had a cactus once, but then it died and then I got sad, cuz it made me realize...that I was less nurturing than a desert.
Demetri Martin
Home is the place where no matter where you're sitting,
you're looking at something you should be doing.
Unknown
Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furniture.
Rita Rudner
A new study finds that cats actually bond with people like dogs but they’re too aloof to show it. Which is why I named my cat Dad.
Colin Jost
The weird thing about internet advertising is how convinced they are that you need tons more of whatever thing you just ordered.
Matt Ruby
I’m thinking of setting up a price comparison comparison website to compare price comparison websites.
Stephen Cookson
The only way I've found to really wallow in self-pity is to not hear anything about other people's lives.
Robert Bostick
Seven days without humor makes one weak.
Unknown
The "Earth" without "art" is just "Eh."
Unknown
LONLINESS
Robert Bostick
I don’t think it’s an accident Zoom contains the word Zoo.
Robert Bostick
The right words in the right order to the right people can get you anywhere in life.
Unknown
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
Unknown
Nurse to Patient with bleeding head: "Your name?"
P: "John."
N: "What’s your Birthdate?"
P: "February 23, 1970"
N: Are you Married?"
P: "Oh this...No no, it was a car accident."
Unknown
Grammar Lesson
Anagrams are words that have the same exact letters:
Listen = Silent
Elvis = Lives
Debit card = Bad credit
Dormitory = Dirty room
Stressed = Desserts
Robert Bostick
I made a friend request to this guy on Facebook and he never replied to me. I don't know what his problem is? I mean, I don't even know the guy.
Robert Bostick
HR: “What’s your biggest weakness?”
Me: “Interviews”
HR: “And besides that?”
Me: “Follow up questions”
Unknown
I don’t think cops should wear mirrored sunglasses. The whole time the guy was chewing me out all I could think
was, "I should cut my bangs."
Bonnie McFarlane
Life is really hard, but, to be fair to life,
death is not all it’s cracked up to be either.
Robert Bostick
When we say Glass Ceiling we mean Men.
Women
If you want a good golf swing adjust the nut at the other end of the club!
Grant McKay
JEALOUSY
Robert Bostick
We can put a man on the moon, but we can't *
*Remove ourself from a group text.
*Make me a robot that can fold my laundry.
*Make a grass that grows two inches and stops.
*Understand what the conductors are saying over
the PA system on the Metro/Subway lines.
Robert Bostick
Why do you never see elephants hiding in trees?
Because they're good at it.
Unknown
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million.
Hobart Brown
1st World War
2nd World War
3rd World War~ming
Robert Bostick
The only thing that helps me feel better these days
is knowing how much worse things could be.
I call it positive negative thinking.
Robert Bostick
Funny Photos
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Humans will be but a blip in the span of Earth’s history.
The only question is how long the blip will be.
Wayne Ranne
Life is simply what our feelings do to us.
Honore de Balzac
Without creative people, this world would be as unimaginative as you can imagine.
Robert Bostick
Women create and give birth to all our leaders, our doctors, our scientists, our entrepreneurs, our teachers, and every president. It’s truly a woman’s world. So why do men run it?
Robert Bostick
A little boy was sitting beside me in the hospital waiting room. He looked at all the rings on my fingers, then exclaimed, “You must have had a lot of husbands!”
Esther Dawson
“It’s the 21st century now.
So how come we don’t have flying cars?”
What do you think planes are?
Peter White
Today's growing homeless problem is tragic and heartbreaking. Especially knowing that for every homeless person living in a box, there's an appliance living in a home.
Robert Bostick
I’m always struck by the unbridled optimism of conspiracy theorists. They have seemingly never tried to keep a dozen people quiet while planning a surprise party.
Jennifer Wright
Ever notice how everything COSMIC becomes COMIC if you don't see the S.
Unknown
I’ve noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
R.V. Lucas
We’re not all equal as far as wealth, race, gender, or age; but we’re all equal in the opportunity to be astonished by our existence. Except when we're depressed.
Robert Bostick
“It’s not the end of the world.” Yes, thank you for reminding me that there’s always one worse outcome than what is.
Unknown
To be siblings means you were created from nothing in the same place. Come on, what are the odds of that?
Robert Bostick
Running is very popular today. There is even a magazine about it called Runners World. If you thought running was boring wait till you read about it.
Jim Gaffigan
Why can't an Engineer tell a joke timing?
Unknown
2 guys walked into a bar, the 3rd one ducked.
Unknown
Ninety-five percent of people who tell "Two Guys in a Bar" jokes are two guys in a bar.
Robert Bostick
If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
Steven Wright
Your sense of humor. Don't leave home without it.
Don't come home without it either.
Robert Bostick
With the coronavirus,
"Stay in your Lane"
has been updated to
"stay in your pajamas."
Robert Bostick
Video calls are just modern seances.
"Someone wants to join us",
"Elizabeth, are you there?", "I can't hear you", "can you hear us?"
Unknown
It isn't news anymore. It's hour-by-hour warnings.
Paul Harvey
"I wish they would just call the news,
'What's wrong.'
"Hi. It's six o'clock. Here's what's wrong."
Demitri Martin
I bought a pair of shoes in my dream last night and yet, when I woke up, I didn’t have them. It worked out though because I was going to return them anyway.
Susie Thompson
I meditate just so I can have the ego stroke I get from thinking, "I just meditated."
Matt Ruby
The longest song in the world is the Happy Birthday song to a toddler who is ready to help blow out some candles.
Unknown
Before television dreams were our entertainment.
Sally Baack
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein
When I get depressed I talk to my food.
Tina Fey
Life is brutiful.
Glennon Doyle
Someone doing CrossFit could do it for 30 minutes,
then tell you about it forever.
Unknown
I was depressed all morning. Then a friend called and said she lost her job and her husband and that made me feel a little better.
Amy Foster
It's so scary when you're in the elevator of your life and the cable breaks.
Robert Bostick
People say I'm condescending. That means I talk down to people.
Unknown
When you're an easily offended hammer, everything looks like an offensive nail.
Matt Ruby
The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.
Brené Brown
There is a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. It makes me think of a magical place that becomes less comfortable over time.
Demetri Martin
Golf is a game in which a ball - 1 ½ inch in diameter is placed on a ball - 8,000 miles in diameter. The object being to hit the small ball...but not the larger.
John Cunningham
Presentation
They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.
Ray Floyd
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
Mitch Hedberg
Why do water bottles have an ingredient section on the label?
Unknown
Corporate leaders today have gone from big thinkers to gig thinkers.
Robert Bostick
All in favor of conserving gasoline, please raise your right foot.
Anonymous
Hotels today reserve parking spots for electric cars in front and make gas cars park in the back with all the smokers.
Robert Bostick
Have you ever noticed the data
you get from your ego is one-sided?
Robert Bostick
Anti-science people like to use feel facts.
Feel facts aren’t technically facts...they just feel true.
Like, ‘If the Earth is so warm, why are my feet cold?’
Kate McKinnon
We’re here for a good time not a long time.
That’s where humor comes in.
Robert Bostick
Be grateful for what you’re not going through.
Sam Harris
Funny Photos
Unknown
When someone rings the doorbell,
why do dogs always assume it's for them?
Unknown
If I pass away in my sleep, just know that I died doing what I love.
Matt Ruby
Laughter is your best medicine.
International Pharmaceutical Association
“We interrupt our regular program to bring you this special bulletin:
It’s a nice day outside.”
Charles Schulz
I used to fear tall people. Now I look up to them.
Unknown
I don’t mean to brag but I finished my 14-day diet in 3 hours and 12 minutes.
Unknown
There are no Chocolate Anonymous because nobody wants to quit.
Unknown
I got a job at an amusement park. I liked to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a few screws onto the seats.
Emo Phillips
Life usually requires that we pay for our mistakes. What you are going through now is that payment.
Gordon Livingston
Let's face it.
If there was ever a time we needed humor
it's now.
Robert Bostick
You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like yours.
Bob Hope
I hid my husband's Christmas presents with the cleaning supplies.
Laura Marie
When you miss the target, never in history has it been the target’s fault.
Unknown
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
Beware the conversationalist who ads 'in conclusion'. He is merely starting afresh.
Robert Morley
There is always an easy solution to every human problem neat, plausible, and wrong.
H.L. Mencken
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
I don’t like money actually, but it quiets my nerves.
Joe Lewis
Do you think it's effeminate for a man to put clothes in the gentle cycle?
Jerry Seinfeld
Today is Get to Know your Customers Day...
"There is nothing left to learn." said your Amazon Echo.
Seth Meyers
Want to tell a joke?
The key is to pick a smart joke with a great punchline.
But where would you find one?
Here.
Web MD Something that makes a mild cold into a deadly disease within 24 hours.
Unknown
A Fivepack of One-Liner Question Jokes
A three-legged dog walks into a bar and says "Who shot my paw?"
What is the leading cause of dry skin? Towels.
I’d like to help you out today. Which way did you come in?
What did Batman say to Robin before they got in the car?
Robin, get in the car.
What do you get when you play a country song backward? You get your dog back, your wife back, your house back and you sober up.
Poster on Neighborhood Tree
LOST: black and white dog, blind in one eye, half of right ear missing, no tail, limps. Answers to the name of Lucky.
Unknown
We can put a man on the moon, but we still call the sky the limit.
Unknown
“I was depressed, Doctor, so I tried to kill myself
by taking a thousand aspirin."
“What happened?”
“Well, after the first two I felt better”
Gene Perrett
Why is the alphabet in that order?
Is it because of that song?
Steven Wright
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move.
Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.
Steven Wright
Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?
Steven Wright
Is it weird in here, or is it just me?
Steven Wright
The two most powerful phrases in the English language are, “Good News,” and “You’re Right.” The reason is simple: It's good news topped by even better news.
Robert Bostick
Now is the most difficult time to invest.
Unknown
I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
David Sedaris
Wisdom has two parts. Having a lot to say, and not saying it.
Unknown
The following word has been spelling adjusted for enhanced accuracy. Maskulinity.
Robert Bostick
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
Marlo Thomas
Air France is a good name for an airline but a bad name for a deodorant.
Danny Bravman
BP is a good name for a gas company but a bad name for a honey company.
Elden Carnahan
My girlfriend and I often laugh about how competitive we are. But I laugh more.
Unknown
Our miraculous bodies are self-regulating, self-
healing, and for some of us, self-replicating.
Robert Bostick
I wish there was a way to keep in touch with dogs
I meet outside of grocery stores.
Unknown
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who use coasters, and those who don’t.
Jura Koncius
Going to Victoria’s Secret has never made me feel pretty.
What makes me feel pretty is googling plastic surgery disasters.
Taylor Tomlinson
When I was a boy, I had a disease that required me to eat dirt three
times a day in order to survive...It's a good thing my older brother told me about it.
Unknown
If it weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done.
Michael S. Taylor
Spring is nature's way of saying let's party.
Robbin Williams
Eating is like being an artist.
When you do a lot of it, you end up showing your work.
Beth Sterling
People always think you load their dishwasher wrong.
Matt Ruby
My six-year-old just called ranch dressing “salad frosting” and now
I’ll never call it anything else.
James Breakwell
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Unknown
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Alexandre Dumas
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Unknown
I’m gonna go outside, so if anyone asks, you can just say I’m outstanding.
Unknown
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously and have someone find out.
Oscar Wilde
The only time the world beats a path to your door
is when you’re in the bathroom.
Unknown
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues
but the parent of all others.
Cicero
When I met Hank, he was dying of lung cancer. He brought up that fact exactly one time, to tell me that it was out of his control. In his own words: “What am I going to do, start getting pissed off now? Every other time I’ve gotten pissed off it hasn’t helped me a damn bit.” Then he launched into one of his stories of another time he was pissed off when he thought he was going to die in a malfunctioning plane. He put the anger away and landed. “Life is like that,” he told me. “No matter how pissed off you are, you still have to land the plane, and being pissed off isn’t going to help you one bit. You’ve got to make the best of it.
Nobody gets the life we planned, we get what God plans
and we spend the rest of our lives trying not to hold it against him.
A well-lived life has more to do with perspective than anything else. As long as you can laugh, there is hope."
The less people know, the more they yell.
Seth Godin
I live inside a miraculous human body that also acts as a trash compactor.
Robert Bostick
It’s not hard to meet expenses...they’re everywhere.
Unknown
One person's mess is simply another person's filing system.
Margo Kaufman
If you don’t believe in the resurrection of the dead, look at any office at quitting time.
Robert Townsend
What is the root word of the word funny?
Robert Bostick
You know that feeling when you’re leaning back on a chair and you lean too far and you’re about to fall and then at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.
Steven Wright
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
Warren Bennis
The average person thinks he isn't.
Larry Lorenzoni
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can.
Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.
Kurt Vonnegut
Two things to avoid saying in a job interview:
“Okie Dokie."
"You’re darn tootin.”
Robert Bostick
Take my advice — I'm not using it.
Unknown
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
Unknown
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny'
Isaac Asimov
I love watching squirrels... they always look like they're up to something.
Robert Bostick
Each day I have one simple goal: steer clear of the bad neighborhoods of my mind.
Robert Bostick
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
I intend to live forever...So far, so good.
Steven Wright
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Start by starting.
Meryl Streep
Obstacles do not block the path, they are the path.
Zen proverb
Orville Wright did not have a pilot's license.
Gordon MacKenzie
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn’t be a human being. You’d be a game-show host.
Veronica Sawyer
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
Charles Bukowski
Your ego is not your amigo.
B.J. Novak
We are not retreating--we are advancing in another direction.
General Douglas MacArthur
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
Bad taste is simply saying the truth…Before it should be said.
Mel Brooks
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
Everyone has a spark of divinity in them worth respecting.
Robert Bostick
Dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish?
Unknown
Just before takeoff a flight attendant approached Muhammad Ali and asked him to buckle his seat belt. He replied, “Superman don’t need no seat belt!” responded, “Superman don’t need no plane.”
True Story
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali
Everything you ever wanted is one step outside your comfort zone.
Unknown
Nothing happens until the pain of remaining the same outweighs the pain of change.
Arthur Burt
Biology Walks. Souls Talk. Death Stalks.
Robert Bostick
My elderly dad is just beginning to use technology. His first email was all in the subject line.
David Nihill
Regardless of the changes in technology, the market for well-crafted messages will always have an audience.
Steve Burnett
The shortest distance between two people is laughter.
Victor Borge
If you can make people laugh, an open mind can't be far behind.
Sarah Jones
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
Jonathan Swift
The most important thing to know in life is how to be friendly.
Drake Prata Baack Age 8
Everyone uses Virtual Reality. They're called dreams.
Robert Bostick
There are more stars in our Universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.
Carl Sagan
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher
I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
Paul McCartney
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
Anne Lamott
There is no way to place my wife’s coffee order at Starbucks without feeling like I need to apologize afterward.
John Thomas
Sometimes I am amazed that my wife and I created two human beings from scratch yet struggle to assemble the most basic of IKEA cabinets.
John Kinnear
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
Joseph Cossman
Here’s a shout out to all the women who created every human being on earth. You did a phenomenal job. Yes, throughout history, there are a few guys we could have done without, but overall, you've brought one joyous miracle after another.
Robert Bostick
Sign On A Plumber’s Truck 'Don’t sleep with a drip. Call your plumber.'
Unknown
My four-year-old son said, “Daddy, I’m gonna be a doctor.”
I said, “That would be great son.”
“Or a Dinosaur.”
Michael Jr.
Funny Lies We Tell Our Kids Confessed on Twitter
Why did the kid cross the playground? To get to the other slide.
Skye Prata Baack Age 10
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To show the squirrel it could be done.
Skye Prata Baack Age 10
Give a kid a hammer and he'll treat everything as a nail.
Unknown
Playing Frisbee with a five-year-old is amazingly similar…
To just running after a Frisbee.
Jim Gaffigan
The three loves of my life are: my wife, my kids, my pillow.
Anonymous
The ultimate avoidance activity for dads is Golf.
It stands for Get Out Leave Family.
Jerry Seinfeld
Office:
A business place where you can relax from your strenuous home life.
Evan Esar
My wife is a completed work under glass to be admired and studied. I’m more like one of those buildings that has scaffolding around it for 6 straight years where people look at it and think “Just tear it down and start all over again."
Bill Burr
Do I have a hobby? Yes I have a hobby. My hobby is make-believe.
Skye Prata Baack Age 7
Mother always said that honesty was the best policy, and money isn’t everything. She was wrong about other things too.
Gerald Barzan
60 years later a woman was still affected by her mother's admonition "Don't be a complainer"
Unknown
Got a new phone today, my old one failed the swimming test.
Unknown
I'm so compulsive about losing weight, I weigh myself after I cough.
Elayne Boosler
Etc. – End of Thinking Capacity.
Unknown
This month Netflix is featuring the movie Groundhog Day. I watch it every day.
Robert Bostick
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
Jean Kerr
Evening news is where they begin with ‘Good evening’and then proceed to tell you why it isn’t.
Unknown
One thing you are sure you will do for the rest of your life:
Pull the door that says push.
Unknown
I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.
Zach Galifianakis
Study Finds Link Between Red Wine, Letting Mother Know What You Really Think.
Onion Newspaper Headline
I saw a sign on a lawn that said, “Please Don’t Walk On Our Grass.”
Then I saw an old man’s face in the window, and his face also said that.
Jackie Pirico
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
Reincarnation: Life sucks, then you die, then life sucks again.
Unknown
They say you only use ten percent of your brain. What about the other ten percent?
Lara Bliss
Human conflict is often born out of a failure to grasp the frustration of someone else's feelings.
Robert Bostick
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out what kind of advice he wants, and give it to him.
Josh Billing
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
Lily Tomlin
I miss my old car. We would always play this fun game where the engine light would come on, and then I would just call its bluff.
Amy Bugg
The other day I heard Google maps tell me "You've arrived." It felt good. I’ve been waiting to hear that my whole life.
Robert Quick Bostick
Did you know you have the right to remain silent even when you’re not being arrested?
Evan Kessler
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
Erica Jong
The President says since he's been in office he's created hundreds of thousands of new jobs. My brother-in-law has 4 of them.
Bill Dyment
In this country you're guilty until proven wealthy.
Bill Mayer
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
If the stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stocks not selling advice.
Norman Augustine
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavours and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
Alfred Newman
Maybe I’m lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.
Ashleigh Brilliant
The other day a woman asked me to tell her what Mansplaining was and I was like, “Nice try...I have no idea.”
Demetri Martin
Smartphones, smart cars, smart buildings, smart appliances...
what’s left...oh yeah, people. That will be easy...all we need is
smart schools...smart parents...smart teachers...smart principals
...smart mayors...smart governors...smart presidents...
Maybe we'll just stick with a smart car.
Robert Bostick
When you go to a conference and you see a male speaker who invented something big they get your attention.
When you go to a conference and see a female speaker who created another human from nothing, ehh.
Robert Bostick
When I tell bar audiences I used to be a pastor, they laugh at me. When I tell church people I am a comedian, they pray for me.
Cliff Prang
Life is a picture. But you live in a pixel.
Tim Urban
Advertising promotes an idealized life
because reality doesn't sell.
Robert Bostick
English is a funny language.
A fat chance and a slim chance are the same thing.
Jack Herbert
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George Will
It’s good to have a plan: it’s better to have a plan b.
Mike Muzio
Bigger isn’t Better—Better is Better.
Andrew Sobel
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and assign them tasks, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but of seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Maybe I’m lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.
Ashleigh Brilliant
The other day a woman asked me to tell her what Mansplaining was and I was like, “Nice try...I have no idea.”
Demetri Martin
Smartphones, smart cars, smart buildings, smart appliances...
what’s left...oh yeah, people. That will be easy...all we need is
smart schools...smart parents...smart teachers...smart principals
...smart mayors...smart governors...smart presidents...
Maybe we'll just stick with a smart car.
Robert Bostick
When you go to a conference and you see a male speaker who invented something big they get your attention.
When you go to a conference and see a female speaker who created another human from nothing, ehh.
Robert Bostick
When I tell bar audiences I used to be a pastor, they laugh at me. When I tell church people I am a comedian, they pray for me.
Cliff Prang
Life is a picture. But you live in a pixel.
Tim Urban
Advertising promotes an idealized life
because reality doesn't sell.
Robert Bostick
English is a funny language.
A fat chance and a slim chance are the same thing.
Jack Herbert
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George Will
It’s good to have a plan: it’s better to have a plan b.
Mike Muzio
Bigger isn’t Better—Better is Better.
Andrew Sobel
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Just because we're missing the magic, beauty, and unfathomable mystery of this world, doesn't mean it can't happen.
Robert Bostick
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and assign them tasks, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but of seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust
I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.
Pablo Picasso
Underneath the hood of the car that is America, there are always a couple racist and sexist pistons pumping away. Yes the car is moving but its defective pistons always make the engine very troublesome.
Robert Bostick
White privilege doesn’t mean your life hasn’t been hard. It just means
the color of your skin isn’t one of the things that makes it harder.
Unknown
Quoted from "Jimmy Kimmel Live"
"Racism in America is like dust in the air. It seems invisible— even if you're choking on it—until you let the sun in. Then you see it's everywhere. As long as we keep shining that light, we have a chance of cleaning it wherever it lands. But we have to stay vigilant because it's always still in the air."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
No white person wants to change places with a black person.
They don’t even want to exchange places with me, and I’m rich.
Chris Rock
Quoted from "Jon Stewart Is Back to Weigh In" New York Times
The response to police misconduct is that they’re just bad apples as if we have to tolerate a few in every basket. Really? Is anyone ready to tolerate a few bad apple pilots?
Robert Bostick
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: To tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Bobby Kennedy
We live together as rational human beings or die together as fools.
Martin Luther King
I often tell young people that if you see something you think
is wrong and it bothers you, then with steady, loving confrontation,
you can get others to see the wrong in whatever it is that you see.
Lynda Lowrey, Civil Rights Activist
There isn’t anyone you couldn’t learn to love if you knew their story.
Unknown
The fact that everyone dies kills me.
Robert Bostick
The secret to a happy life is to run out of cash and air at the same time.
Bobby Layne
Did anyone dig for China when they were kids? Our parents said if you dig all the way through the earth you’d come out in China. We had one kid on our block who dug down about ten feet digging for China and I use to sneak in and throw egg rolls in the hole. He thought he was getting close. “Only a few more feet Dad. I’m hitting something down here.”
Gary Shandling
Not only is your heart hopefully full of love, but it also pumps about 8,000 quarts of blood a day through its chambers. That works out to 332 quarts per hour or nearly 6 quarts per minute. It takes about one minute for all the blood in our body to make the round trip back to our heart. That's a lot of pumping going on and we're not aware of any of it. But wait, there's more. Our heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. Now are you impressed with what you are?
Robert Bostick
See How the Heart Works in 3D
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.
Thich Nhat Hanh
A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored.
Michael Crichton
As a newspaper editor in the digital age, I always see if I can make a headline funny. The funnier the headline the more they click on it.
Unknown
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt