My darling love, I think you have a fundamental misconception about what it means to be a great dandy. I have better taste than anyone else so I don't care what anyone else thinks about anything. I am right and they are wrong.
Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear ...
The job of a journalist is to amplify the voices of the marginalized. To do that, you have to hear those voices in the first place.
Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and ...
What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? He leaned forward. "Be...
What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else...
Josey Wales: [referring to Lone's dog] Chief, I was just wondering: I suppose that mangy red-bone hound's got no place else to go either. [spits tobacco juice on the dog's forehead] Josey Wales: He might as well ride along with us; Hell, everybody el...
Bullitt: Who else knew where he was? Walter Chalmers: What? Bullitt: Who else knew where he was? Walter Chalmers: What are you implying? Bullitt: Well, they knew where to look for him, and they used your name to get in. Walter Chalmers: Are you sugge...
These tears are proof that there is love in the world. Tears are only bitter when we cry selfishly for ourselves. When we deny and forget the sweet love that tears are made of. When we let sorrow turn to anger. When people cry for each other, it is a...
You see, mzungus make these programmes because in their countries they know that everything will work correctly. And when they come to Uganda they still make their programmes but they forget that things don't work here like they do when they are at h...
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
Not all stories translate well when read out loud.
You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.
When schools flourish, all flourishes.
When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.
All your mannerisms change easily when you have inch-long acrylic nails.
Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.
For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7.
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
