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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action.

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.

Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

America does not fight for land, glory or riches.

Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.