Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engi...
Horns are not too heavy for the cow.
Too large a morsel chokes the child.
No wind is too cold for lovers.
Too humble is half proud.
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?
The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness.
By late autumn the yard would grow thick with fallen leaves, causing the landlady to heave many deep sighs.
Stepparenting is like working at a late-night convenience store — all of the responsibility and none of the authority.
The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…
The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;
It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.
One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was Dax. Anyone that's roughly my age that's named Dax is named from that book.
I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.
When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.
And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
you simply couldn't guard yourself against dreams. they attacked late at night when a person was at the most vulnerable.
You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.
