HumorJerry Leiber It’s self-effacing, it’s hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. – Jerry Leiber Amalgam Quotes Black Quotes Coasters Quotes Hardluck Quotes Humor Quotes Selfeffacing Quotes Shtetl Quotes Stories Quotes Yiddish Quotes So, I’m thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of ‘The Joker’ as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house. In the ‘Hurt Locker’ there’s a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
FinancePeter Middlebrook In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically and in sophistication. – Peter Middlebrook
Donald E Westlake With writing, I prefer the solo effort, but when a team is working right, as it did on ‘The Grifters,’ boy, it’s exhilarating. – Donald E Westlake
Harrison Birtwistle There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it’s not just a collection of notes. – Harrison Birtwistle
Adam Lashinsky The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries. – Adam Lashinsky
Dwight L MoodyFaithReligion It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? – Dwight L Moody
Sanjay Kumar It didn’t make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations. – Sanjay Kumar
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