Ashleigh Brilliant
Ashleigh Brilliant
Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliantis an author and syndicated cartoonist born in London, UK, and living in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He is best known for his Pot-Shots, single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in the United States of America in 1975. Brilliant achieved American citizenship in 1969...
ideas bad-ideas
You can never discard too many bad ideas.
pain alive prove
One thing about pain: It proves you're alive.
leave-me-alone neighbor leaving-me
Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.
laughing uncomfortable feels
They laughed at Edison and Einstein, but somehow I still feel uncomfortable when they laugh at me.
matter
Nothing really matters except a few things that really don't matter very much.
needs too-late late
The best thing about being too late is that there's no more need to hurry.
past faces certain
I can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present.
sleep reality firsts
My first line of defense against reality is called sleep.
world ends fingertips
There is a world which I alone rule, but it ends at my fingertips.
self world firsts
With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.
problem bigs kill-me
My problems aren't big but it doesn't necessarily take a big problem to kill me.
flight enjoy walks
Even if you're not enjoying the flight, it's futile to threaten to get out and walk.
imagination may imaginary
The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.
mind executioners
I didn't mind being a public executioner, once I got the hang of it.