Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 05:21 sati.