Famous quotes containing the words killing, joke and/or released:
“Mary: Oh, Dan, when is this trouble going to end? This killing and more killing.
Dan: It’s hard on you women, I know. You’re braver than we are.”
—Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)
“We used chamber-pots a good deal.... My mother ... loved to repeat: “When did the queen reign over China?” This whimsical and harmless scatological pun was my first introduction to the wonderful world of verbal transformations, and also a first perception that a joke need not be funny to give pleasure.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“the walk liberating, I was released from forms,
from the perpendiculars,
straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds
of thought
into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends
of sight:”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)