To talk goodness is not good . . . only to do it is.
Good right needs good help.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
A good cat deserves a good rat.
A good speaker makes a good liar.
A good tree bears good fruit.
Good health is the sister of beauty.
A good life is the best sermon.
A good dog deserves a good bone.
Hunger is a good cook.
I'm a good mother. I'm a good person.
A good thing never ends.
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task i...
Dell had left the army and taken the discipline home with him. I’d left the theatre world and taken the whisky sodas home with me.
I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!
The of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.
This is a familiar syndrome. There is a stage with every drawing or painting when it looks banal and clumsy. It's worth pushing through that, working through the cliché to find out what made it a cliché in the first place.
