If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.