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Author : Jon Winokur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Return of the Portable Curmudgeon written by Jon Winokur and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Various
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 : 9780452270305
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Return of the Portable Curmudgeon written by Various and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When turning the other cheek just won't do, try fighting back with the cantankerous remarks of some of the crustiest, grouchiest, and cleverest curmudgeons of all time. Profiles of three world-class wordsmiths--Alexander Woollcott, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Benchley--plus interviews with a variety of caustic commentators make this a collection of barbed remarks second to none.
Author : Jon Winokur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Portable Curmudgeon Redux written by Jon Winokur and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452266688
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)
Download or read book The Portable Curmudgeon written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 1,000 outrageously irreverent quotations, anecdotes, and interviews on a vast array of subjects, from an illustrious list of world class grouches. “If you can’t say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.”—Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Author : Brad Schreiber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621536017
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book What Are You Laughing At? written by Brad Schreiber and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “People have forgotten how to be funny,” says Chris Vogler in his foreword to What Are You Laughing at? Luckily, experienced and award-winning humor writer Brad Schreiber is here to remind us all how it’s done. If laughter is the best medicine, be prepared to feel fit as a fiddle after perusing these pages. Brad’s clever wit and well-timed punch lines are sure to leave you grasping your sides, while his wise advice will ensure that you’re able to follow in his comedic footsteps. With more than seventy excerpts from such expert prose and screenwriters as Woody Allen, Steve Martin, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., as well as unique writing exercises for all situations, this comprehensive tutorial will teach you how to write humor prose for any literary form, including screenwriting, story writing, theater, television, and audio/radio. Additionally, readers are given sage advice on different tactics for writing comedic fiction versus comedic nonfiction. Some of the topics discussed include: Life experience versus imagination How to use humor to develop theme/setting, character, and dialogue Rhythm and sound of words Vulgarity and bad taste How to market your humor prose in the digital market Thoroughly revised and updated, and with new information on writing short, humorous films, What Are You Laughing at? is your endless source to learning the art of comedy.
Author : Tamara Jacobs
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601633866
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Your Ultimate Success Plan written by Tamara Jacobs and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2015-06-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere between self-help and self-promotion lies self-awareness and advancement. Your Ultimate Success Plan is a book that provides surprisingly easy-to-apply business strategies in an approachable, actionable, authentic way and encourages you to find your voice and realize your potential. The characters you will meet in each chapter of this book are quite relatable—professional women and men plagued with the Cinderella complex, waiting patiently (and hopelessly) to be rescued; the insecure who subjugate their core identities to get others to like them; and the perennial complainers who merely want to vent, not solve. Do any of these characters sound familiar? If you are one yourself—or if you have to deal with one or more of them, as most of us do—you need this book. With principles based on awareness, forgiveness, strategic application, and follow-through, you can join the thousands of enlightened converts who have participated in Tamara’s workshops and seminars for more than 25 years. Your Ultimate Success Plan will teach you how to: Build your brand Com-YOU-nicateTM your worth while enhancing your self-worth Elevate the status of “You”
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1724 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Stage Actresses written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Video Game Actresses written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel I. Schwartz
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541724046
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)
Download or read book No One at the Wheel written by Samuel I. Schwartz and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe. Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous than cars that pilot themselves. Is this an impossible future, or a revolution just around the corner? Sam Schwartz, America's most celebrated transportation guru, describes in this book the revolution in self-driving cars. The ramifications will be dramatic, and the transition will be far from seamless. It will overturn the job market for the one in seven Americans who work in the trucking industry. It will cause us to grapple with new ethical dilemmas-if a car will hit a person or a building, endangering the lives of its passengers, who will decide what it does? It will further erode our privacy, since the vehicle can relay our location at any moment. And, like every other computer-controlled device, it can be vulnerable to hacking. Right now, every major car maker here and abroad is working on bringing autonomous vehicles to consumers. The fleets are getting ready to roll and nothing will ever be the same, and this book shows us what the future has in store.
Author : Jon Winokur
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679763414
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Advice to Writers written by Jon Winokur and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000-05-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Advice to Writers, Jon Winokur, author of the bestselling The Portable Curmudgeon, gathers the counsel of more than four hundred celebrated authors in a treasury on the world of writing. Here are literary lions on everything from the passive voice to promotion and publicity: James Baldwin on the practiced illusion of effortless prose, Isaac Asimov on the despotic tendencies of editors, John Cheever on the perils of drink, Ivan Turgenev on matrimony and the Muse. Here, too, are the secrets behind the sleight-of-hand practiced by artists from Aristotle to Rita Mae Brown. Sagacious, inspiring, and entertaining, Advice to Writers is an essential volume for the writer in every reader.
Author : Jon Winokur
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466860308
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia Neurotica written by Jon Winokur and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Portable Curmudgeon, a delicious, witty, irreverent A to Z guide to the tics, twitches and safety-valves that characterize our twisted, neurotic modern world. We live in an Age of Anxiety. The events of modern life have overwhelmed the average homo sapiens until getting from Point A to Point B without being overcome by neuroses is a practical impossibility. Enter: the comic safety valve. Jon Winokur's Encyclopedia Neurotica is a delightful garden of the ills that beset modern man. Entries include excerpts from both popular and arcane published works, as well as original definitions, essential terms and the occasional cutting-edge concept, such as "celebriphilia, the pathological desire to sleep with a celebrity, suffered chiefly by groupies." Some samples from Encyclopedia Neurotica: --Abyss, the: the yawning unfathomable chasm of existential terror --Acquired Situational Narcissism: a condition characterized by grandiosity, lack of empathy, rage, isolation and substance abuse; mainly afflicts celebrities, who tend to be surrounded by enablers --Denial: unconscious defense mechanism that numbs anxiety by refusing to acknowledge unpleasant realities --Manic Run: prolonged state of optimism, excitement and hyperactivity experienced as part of bipolar disorder
Author : United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1910 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Report of the Secretary of the Senate from ... written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1987-10 with total page 1910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780809236817
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (368 download)
Download or read book The Book of Poisonous Quotes written by and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1993-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creative arts. Literature. Drama film. Music. The media. Education.
Author : Jon Winokur
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9781862055919
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (559 download)
Download or read book How to Win at Golf Without Actually Trying written by Jon Winokur and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at last is a guide to winning at golf that tells you how to dominate your opponents – not by out-playing them, but by out-thinking them. Golf is a complex and demanding game, so fickle and perverse, that even its masters never truly master it. But, Jon Winokur assures us in this entertaining and eminently practical manual, that if you can’t play golf consistently well, you can at least win consistently. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Winokur provides various tried and true gamesmanship techniques with which to gain the advantage, from the most subtle psychological warfare to the carefully stifled sneeze. Filled with wry humour, peppered with tips, quotes, and anecdotes from golf’s greats, and illustrated throughout, this book is indispensable for anyone whose priority is to win ... at whatever cost!
Author : James Garner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145164261X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Garner Files written by James Garner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revered actor and quintessential self-made man recalls "trying to decipher" William Wyler with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, breaking Doris Day's ribs, having a "heart-to-heart and eyeball-to-eyeball" with Steve McQueen, being "a card-carrying liberal--and proud of it," and much more.
Author : William B. Caudle II
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449043593
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Old Curmudgeon written by William B. Caudle II and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ". . .Miss Emma, he doesn't have to be worthy to listen and accept the gospel of Jesus Christ. All he has to do is be willing. If we could only get him to listen and let us talk to him." "There were only three noticeable and important differences he could immediately observe about north Florida. First, the lush-green countryside was filled with trees, such as would never grow in the arid climate of Colorado. The second was the lilting, often difficult-to-understand, sometimes heavily-accented, language spoken by the true native in the area. It was perceptible as English, but was laced with colloquialisms never heard before by the farm-boy-turned-missionary. The third was the impossible humidity which left a man sweating and drained of energy before 10:00 a.m. each day during the six-month-long summer. But, Elder Butters thought, he would be able to adjust, and he had begun to come out of his shell after a month or two. That is, until he was transferred as his second assignment to the newly-formed Dixie Ward and met "that old curmudgeon."
Author : Howard J. Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Doctor's Book of Humorous Quotations written by Howard J. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining book presents hundreds of humorous jokes, quotations, and one-liners compiled from a variety of sources (medical literature, books, magazines, the internet, movies, television, remarks made at conferences or rounds, lectures, comic routines). The text is organized alphabetically allowing readers to browse through the book randomly, or focus on particular topics of interest. Sample subject headings include Academia, Aphorisms, Atrophy, Bedside Manner, Beepers, Case Reports, Chicken Soup, Dieting, Epitaphs, Fatigue, Health Food, Insanity, Jogging, Lab Tests, Lawyers, Middle Age, Motherhood, Night Calls, Obesity, Phobias, Quacks, Retirement, Snoring, Teenagers, Turfing, Ulcers, Vacations, Wellness, Zoonoses. There is cross-referencing throughout the book for easy location of additional topics of interest. Offers nuggets of wisdom within humorous one-liners Provides a quick laugh or pick-me-up at the end of a busy day Helps promote better communication among colleagues, students, and patients Material in this book can be used during lectures and hospital rounds, conferences, with office staff, and by speakers who need funny lines to spice up their presentations to medical professionals
