I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.