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"There are practical things which contribute to a joke's funniness. People will find a joke funnier if they are sitting closer together, if it's cold, if they've paid and if they are told it's funny beforehand."
"Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding."
"It is a simple chemical reaction that has nothing to do with fusion."
"The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid."
"Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax."
"Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'"
"She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself."
"Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made."
"I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. Its exhausting. You get cold."
"We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?"
"Fire consumes, but cold preserves."
"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"
"All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally."
"The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose."
"A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold."
"Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms."
"You know how you always expect someone to think the same as you and then your like, really shocked when they don't? Like when it's a cold day and you turn to the person next to you and say, 'Its so cold, aren't you cold?' and then they say 'no.' It's kinda like, 'what, are you a communist?'"
"Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?"
"When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely."
"It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something."
