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If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know – Steven Wright
John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won't tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch's eyes. And as if this wasn't enough retribution for Kelly, the next day he and four other inmates took turns pissing into the bitch's ocular cavities. (short pause) This way to the cafeteria – So I Married an Axe Murderer
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will... but then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else... But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine tht kills the fascists. – John Green
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. – Kahlil Gibran
The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop. – Edwin Conklin
The word impossible is not in my dictionary. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. – Sarah Ban Breathnach
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. – Marilyn Monroe
Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. – Josh Sugarmann
... information can be treated like any other quantity and be subjected to the manipulation of a machine. – Stan Aogartem
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. – John Henry Cardinal Newman
Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. – Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Deus ex machina A god from the machine – Menander
Deus ex machina [A god from the machine] – Menander, The Woman Possessed with a Divinity
Ginger He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize - he does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond. But you know what its all a facade. All his charm and charisma, his wealth, his expensive toys. He is a driven, unflinching, calculating machine. He takes what he wants and then disappears. You don't find him - he finds you. – Swordfish
Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state. – David Dean Rusk
Humour is a cog in the machine we call love. – Aaron J. Munzer
If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know? – Steven Wright
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary. – Ayn Rand
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it. – Pierre Gallois
If you're traveling in a time machine, and you're eating corn on the cob, I don't think it's going to affect things one way or the other. But here's the point I'm trying to make Corn on the cob is good, isn't it. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization. – L. Frank Baum
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. – Napoleon
In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned. – B. J. Gupta
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras. – Tom Nolan

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