#mma

He wasn't aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn't smile he didn't look amiable ↗

— Emma Goldrick

#funny #goldrick #harlequin-special-edition #hero #humor

There's a fine line between funny and annoying – and it's exactly the width of a quotation mark. ↗

— Martha Brockenbrough

#grammar #grammar-humor #quotation-marks #funny

I prefer to have people read books for me and then summarize them in a few sentences. It’s the same as if I had read them myself, except it takes longer. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #reading #summarizing #funny

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#humor #politics #humor

People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organising the world how you'd like it to be. ↗

— Delphine de Vigan

#grammar

Aku adalah kunang-kunang Dalam gelap aku terbang, dalam gelap aku terang Dan jadilah kau senja. karena gelap kau ada, Karena gelap kau indah Aku hanyalah kunang-kunang dan engkau hanyalah senja Saat gelap kita berbagi. Saat gelap kita abadi... ↗

— Moammar Emka

#love #moammar #love

This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as non-traditional gramar, split infinitives, and the odd wank. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#humor #humor

Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. ↗

— Lynne Truss

#humor

Oh -- who's the Queen?" "Her, of course. The White Queen. You're just like Alice, you know. Down the rabbit hole with the Mad Hatter. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#gramma #morganville-vampires #morganville-vampires

Come all you thoughtless young men, a warning take by me And never leave your happy homes to sail the raging sea. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#aubreyad #master-and-commander #sea-shanty #the-far-side-of-the-world #home