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...
names firsts trouble
Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.
firsts easier ifs
It's easier to learn many other things, if you first learn how to learn.
sleep reality firsts
My first line of defense against reality is called sleep.
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.
believe sight firsts
Do you believe in apathy at first sight?
call hitting opinions shoot sure whatever
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.
conflict flowers good talk thinking
What good is it if I talk in flowers while you're thinking in pastry?
cast figure life
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
alone ends fingertips
There is a whole world which I alone rule, but it ends at my fingertips
together relax tension
Please don't tell me to relax, it's only my tension that's holding me together.
trying patient life-is
Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.
order mind trying
In order to keep an open mind, I am trying to avoid learning anything.
waiting earth tasks
The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist.
next life-is objects
My main object in life is to see what will happen next.