The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of this study, to decide in each case the best policy to follow. Now in all political situations we must ...
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exp...
's standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit...
Jim: I was dreaming about God. Mary Graham: What did he say? Jim: Nothing. He was playing tennis. Perhaps that's where God is all the time and that's why you can't see Him when you're awake, do you think? Mary Graham: I don't know. I don't know about...
[Jim's hassling the truck driver on the way to Soochow] Jim: Do you know where we are? We're here, see? And now we have to turn left. Do you hear me? When I say turn left, you turn left! When I say turn right, turn right! You have to do what I say ot...
Walt Disney: You look at me and you see some kind of Hollywood King Midas. You think I've built and empire and I want your Mary Poppins as just another brick in my kingdom. P.L. Travers: And don't you? Walt Disney: Now, if that's all it was, would I ...
Carl Fox: "There came into Egypt a Pharaoh who did not know." Gordon Gekko: I beg your pardon, is that a proverb? Carl Fox: No, a prophecy. The rich have been doing it to the poor since the beginning of time. The only difference between the Pyramids ...
I leave behind this hurricane of f***ing lies
...there is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.... (p. 111)
And the fools… well, the fools are there for us to fleece and then to show mercy.
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.
Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.
American public policy is run on a myth.
At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.
High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.
The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.
I have lived the American dream, and that is the dream I want for our children and all children everywhere.
All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.'
