#paid

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#attention #changing #how #humor #involved

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#i #life #mania #my life #off

I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well. ↗

— Eric Bristow

#crafty #darts #day #days #deal

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#comedians #customers #funny #great #had

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#ass #been #being #creating #feeling

I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#actually #changed #direction #eight #five

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. ↗

— Karel Capek

#enslaved #machine #machinery #man #never

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. ↗

— George Carlin

#fired #get #hard #just #money

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#go #huge #i #i think #idea

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#get #going #home #i #lot