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Sometimes it takes you two or three seconds to get your head round a joke and laugh at it. With a snot-bubble laugh, it comes instinctively - almost in spite of yourself. It's caused by something silly - like when a little kid says something unexpectedly bizarre.
Julian Barratt
You
Yourself
Sometimes
Three
Joke
Seconds
Kid
Says
Laugh
Bizarre
Silly
Something
Spite
Head
Takes
Almost
Instinctively
Like
Caused
Get
Unexpectedly
Little
Little Kid
Your
Round
Two
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
Kenneth L. Pike
Change
Behavior
Society
Unless
Recognize
Able
Spite
Know
Identities
Normal
Human
Social
Requires
Human Society
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are truly good at heart.
Kurt Huber
Good
Heart
People
Believe
Everything
Spite
Still
Truly
Doing 'Days of Our Lives' was fun. I always am happy when working on the set. I think it reminds me of my childhood, which, in spite of not being 'normal' in any way, was a happy one.
Kyle Richards
Me
Happy
Think
Our
Way
Our Lives
Spite
Reminds
Days
Always
Am
Doing
Normal
Any
Childhood
Being
Which
Working
Fun
Lives
Set
My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
Larry Drake
Forgiveness
Best
Parents
Think
Say
Spite
Lot
Up
Did
Children
Grow
Grow Up
They Say
In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.
Lawrence Welk
Depression
Time
Good
Good Time
Dancing
Way
Hungry
Folks
Seemed
Spite
Good Way
Because
Were
Maybe
Evening
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
Leon Jouhaux
Me
Director
School
Mother
Engineer
Parents
Become
National
Local
Everything
Later
Local School
Spite
Could
Attending
Encouraged
Send
Crafts
Arts
Wanted
Which
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Luc de Clapiers
Nature
Law
Spite
Cannot
Mankind
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
Lucian Freud
People
Exactly
Spite
Like
Because
How
Happen
Paint
The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
Madeleine Stowe
Saying
Me
Three
Kiss
First
Others
Scene
Spite
Attempted
Knew
Wrong
Dead
Forced
Felt
Spot
Were
Times
Fort
Ground
Away
Right
Level
Right Away
Peculiar
In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.
Matt Blunt
Government
Technology
Age
Internet
Changes
State
State Government
Typewriter
Spite
Advances
Obsolete
Economy
Still
Model
Internet Age
I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.
Michael Chabon
Good
Woman
Fear
Wife
Thought
Three
Positively
Fact
Spite
Idea
Another
Another Woman
Editor
Still
Surprised
Again
Them
Agent
Then
Good Idea
A film will be a hit or a flop in spite of my worrying about it.
Mohanlal
Will
Worrying
About
Spite
Hit
Film
Flop
In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country.
Najib Razak
Religion
Culture
Diversity
Country
Gone
Spite
Developing
Terms
Malaysia
Huge
Very
Race
Far
Forth
Really
Ethnicity
For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own.
Norman Davies
Great
Experience
People
Emotions
Matter
Own
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Weaving
Touch
Delicious
Spite
Writes
Ideas
She
Yale
Subject
Subject Matter
Intellectual
Commentary
Familiar
Personal
Taste
Shore
Ashes
Much
Europe
Including
Professor
Her
I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves.
Ntozake Shange
Art
Healing
Joy
Think
Ourselves
Able
Give
Spite
Force
Sustain
Then
Found
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
Octavia E. Butler
Class
Sports
School
Hopeless
Rest
Other
Other Kids
Kids
Only
Only Child
Spite
Adult
Comfortable
Because
Taller
Always
Got
Than
Quiet
Child
Grades
Short
Different
Size
Even
Awkward
Earliest
Shy
And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
Oliver North
Today
War
You
Women
World
Men
Men And Women
Country
Though
Fact
Spite
Had
Almost
Fewer
Them
Uniform
Far
Youngsters
Large
Even
Population
Roughly
Twice
Million
World War
World War II
In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.
Omar Bongo
Sometimes
Political
Poverty
Wish
Our
Abandoned
Neither
Some
Give
Economic
Spite
Because
Impose
Nor
Models
Dependence
Nations
The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
Otis Williams
Today
Those
Temptations
Spite
Because
Still
Left
Them
Us
Stand
Who
Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.
Paul Davies
Cancer
Healthy
Research
Inside
Variety
Spite
Almost
Almost All
Highly
Chemicals
Infection
Efficient
Decades
Cells
Explanation
Agents
Radiation
Theory
Agreed
Why
Lurks
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
Paul Ricoeur
Death
Hope
Freedom
Spite
Resurrection
Dead
I'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Honesty
Think
Heroic
Spite
Like
Makes
Actions
Her
Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Ralph Bellamy
Alone
Man
Words
Sometimes
Live
Eat
Fact
Spite
He
Does
Them
One of my favorite outfits is one I picked up on a trip to Chandigarh. I've worn it once and am skeptical about wearing it again in spite of loving it so much, thanks to the 'fashion police' who won't wait a second to splash it out in the papers or feature me in the 'same to same' blog.
Raveena Tandon
Fashion
Me
Police
Wait
Thanks
Worn
Once
Papers
Favorite
Out
Wearing
Outfits
Trip
About
Feature
Spite
Splash
Picked
Am
Blog
Up
Same
Again
Loving
Skeptical
Much
Who
Second
Most people cherish their very existence and try their best to live a life worth living. In spite of the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in our way, we somehow hope against hope and find a way to be as life-affirming as humanly possible! How? Love!
Richard Belzer
Life
Love
Hope
Best
People
Worth
Try
Live
Living
Our
Way
Worth Living
Possible
Find
Somehow
Seemingly
Spite
Obstacles
Most
How
Insurmountable
Cherish
Existence
Very
Against
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