I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, co...
Raymond: Gotta get my boxer shorts at K-Mart. Charlie: [Pulls over, gets out of the car and yells] WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHERE YOU BUY UNDERWEAR? WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? UNDERWEAR IS UNDERWEAR! IT IS UNDERWEAR WHEREVER YOU BUY IT! IN CIN...
When strangers on a train or a plane ask what I do for a living, I say, "I kill people." This response makes for a short conversation. No eye contact and no sudden movement from my seat-mate. Only peace and quiet. Rare is the fellow passenger who ask...
The best lie was always just short of the truth.
Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not -- and decides to take offence.
Short questions with long answers, my boy.
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.
Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.
He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.
'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there.
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.
Because each are going to blame each other. The thing that Canberra has to really get right is the sharing of the resource. But my problem with people in the government who are there for a short time is that there's no consequences for some of these ...
My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.
I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
