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: Its hard on you women, I know. Youre braver than we are.”
—Dudley Nichols (18951960)
“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 (19401992)
“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)