...I was shocked and astonished when a daring little girl -- a cousin I think -- having waited under a group of trees in the avenue, where she knew [my grandfather] would pass near four o'clock on the way to his dinner, said to him, 'If I were you an...
You know a man by the sweat of his brow and the strength of his word.
The guest who outstays his fellow guests loses his overcoat.
He that performs his own errand, saves his messanger's hire.
What the sober man has in his heart, the drunkard has on his lips.
He who has burned his mouth blows his soup.
Judge a man not by the words of his mother, but from the comments of his neighbors.
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.
For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.
Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.
There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.
And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
I'm seven hundred years old, Alexander. I know when something isn't going to work. You won't even admit I exist to your parents." Alec stared at him. "I thought you were three hundred! You're seven huundred years old?" "Well," Magnus amended, "eight ...
But there was a discipline, it was just that we didn't understand. We thought he was formless, but I think now he was tormented by order, what was outside it. He tore apart the plot - see his music was immediately on top of his own life. Echoing. As ...
Then why was his tongue in your mouth? Was he conducting a clinical test of your gag reflex?" He smiled, but not nicely. "How is your gag reflex, Ms. Lane? Are you a hair trigger?" Barrons likes to use sexual innuendo to try to shut me up. I think he...
I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Depart...
