Quote by Arthur Smith
Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably b

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. – Arthur Smith

Other quotes by Arthur Smith

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world. – Arthur Smith

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funny
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Ive noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasnt going to do anyway so heres something more positive. Im going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school. – Arthur Smith

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positive
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The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but thats about it. – Arthur Smith

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funny
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Other Quotes from
Travel
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The man who never in his mind and thoughts traveld to heaven is no artist. – William Blake

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Travel

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory – whats going on, what the opportunities are there – you talk about your own research. – Frank Press

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Travel

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games. – Drew Carey

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Travel

You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think its sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit. – Lesley Gore

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Travel

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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. – Russell Baker

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What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator. – Anon.

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Computers

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance. – Max Bill

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It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations. – Huston Smith

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Religion