#hum

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

#agriculture #biggest #humbug #industry #our

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#earth #expand #fiction #human #mars

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#given #heart #human #human heart #i

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#back #brought #chance #commission #crimes

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#faint #first #get #here #human

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#deep #deep love #future #human #human race

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. ↗

— Robert Orben

#blame #computer #err #even #human

Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years. ↗

— Robert Orben

#humor #like #starts #then #wildfire

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff. ↗

— Robert Orben

#around #call #gentle #go #humor