Harry Burns: Repeat after me. Pepper. Sally Albright: Pepper. Harry Burns: Pepper. Sally Albright: Pepper. Harry Burns: Waiter, there is too much pepper on my paprikash. Sally Albright: Waiter, there is too much pepper on my paprikash. Harry Burns: B...
The average man has no central core of moral assurance, no spring within his breast, no inner strength to place him above the need for repeated psychological shots to give him the courage to go on living. He has become a parasite on the world, drawin...
There is a value in repetition. When we repeat certain phrases and even actions, like fingering prayer beads, we create a quiet rhythm within our spirits. The beating of our heart is a repetition as is the rhythm of our breathing. All of life has its...
... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothing is immune.
Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
Nothing is Impossible. The word "impossible" itself reads "I'm Possible"!
Many stories begin with a dream, but it is rare when the dream is the story itself.
My mind couldn't fit itself around the shape of his absence.
Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.
Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself.
Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.
