I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.
As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.
Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.
Human beings are religious animals.
Sleep is the boundary between being/existence and not-being/non-existence.
The most important thing in life is to be buried well.
All is well, for if the bride has not fair hair, she has a fair skin.
When the affected lady is doing well she eats her peas with a pin.
When you're dying of thirst it's too late to dig a well.
It is not the fire in the fireplace which warms the house, but the couple who get along well.
The woman who dresses well attracts the husband from another woman's door.
With money in your pocket, you are wise, handsome and you sing well too.
A beggar won't mind being insulted.
A dog does not mind being called a dog.
Human beings remember "firsts"- the first time something happens, or the begining of an experience- and we tend to remember "lasts" as well. So when you are about to make a critical/negative delivery , start your criticism with a positive begining, i...
I cannot say your worships have delivered the matter well when I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables [...] our very priests must become mockers if they shall encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are. When you speak bes...
For better or worse, pessimism without compromise lacks public appeal. In all, the few who have gone to the pains of arguing for a sullen appraisal of life might as well never have been born. As history confirms, people will change their minds about ...
He looks at me, the circle, then me again. “It’s really you, right? I didn’t create some simulacrum that was inhabited by a demon? Prove it’s you. Say something only Spencer would say.” “Like what?” “Say something .” I think about i...
Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene - colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usual...