I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
Keynes was scarcely a 'revolutionary' in any real sense. He possessed the tactical wit to dress up ancient statist and inflationist fallacies with modern, pseudoscientific jargon, making them appear to be the latest findings of economic science.
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.
The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.
If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?
The real challenge lies in maintaining dignity while being funny. I am in awe of Krushna Abhishek's energy and Bharti Singh's wit. They are infectious and selfless.
One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
