Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.
This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.
I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.
Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.
I am a writer, period!
A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.
But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?
there is [...] a last even of last times of saying if you do not love me I shall not be loved if I do not love you I shall not love
Knowledge is the comprehensive embodiment of imagination that surfaces in observation and finally ripens through the reinforcement of experience thereby inculcating knowledge. This in fact is the short story of life.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." ( , Nov. 9, 1768)
Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.
He felt the journal in his pocket. It was like a pair of glasses that he had worn for a time, enabling him to see a world he didn't even know existed.
Keep her downstairs a minute!' I breathed desperately. I don't know why; you don't want your agonies of soul witnessed by a woman. ("Nightmare")
His voice was oily and slick as it poured from his mouth like liquid acid, threatening to hook onto the woman's hair like a fishing hook and drag her back to death.
I do not like these painted faces that look all alike; and I think women are foolish to dull their expression and obscure their personality with powder, rouge, and lipstick.
I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency.
As he drove away from his handiwork, knowing he'd left no survivors, the killer looked at the rising smoke and gave himself a pat on the back for another assignment well done...
I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?
