Meeting Critic Gifts

"Excuse me! I might have said 'yada yada yada' but I never said 'blah, blah, blah'!"

"When everyone gets a pillow you may start your presentation."

'The good news is we're projecting a profit. The bad news is, none of us will be alive then.'

'Haffner, we'll have none of your common sense suggestions!'

'Better put out a pencil and pad just in case one of 'em does get an idea worth recording...'

"I am calling a meeting...I am calling it a waste of time."

"The time we save tarting these meetings so early is wasted in coffee preparation and bathroom breaks."

"This meeting has been a great success. Insofar as the profound loneliness of my soul has been displaced for a little while."

'I hate to be so skeptical, but I still think the seance business is a hoax!'

Reading my Critics

"The good news is that we do have a little wiggle room."

"And on the eighth day, God sat back with a scotch and soda and waited for the critical reviews."

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

All Harold's aptitude test showed is that he had an aptitude for taking tests.

"Never mind, Harry. Just remember, the 'Saturday Review' loved it."

"Heads up! It's another tidal wave of overwrought critical hyperbole!"

'It's cutting edge theatre.'

"Mom, please! I'm a married woman whose friends have been reviewed favourably by the New York Times."

"If I Can Make One Critic Smile..."

'He takes his organization chart seriously.'

A man on a giant book poses as Rodin's The Thinker.

'I take it that the birthday cake is for this old trout you just served me?'

"Did you read my review on Amazon? Four out of four people found it helpful."

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

'He knows everything about art. But he doesn't know what he likes.'

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The new Physics

"Perhaps you wouln't have declared so many places 'worth a detour' if you'd held the map right way up!"

'Bloomsbury Group, members only'

"Thank you, Mr. Mulvaney, but what we're really looking for is someone with talent."

"I don't like lawyer jokes. Lawyers don't think they're funny and other people don't think they're jokes."

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Boring Board Meeting

Dog writes a review: 'A sublime book, I devoured it in one sitting ...'

"Now this is what I call an honest little pub!"