The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody’s interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?
History doesn’t mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Tweeting and social media – that is a powerful weapon that we just hand over to little kids. You know, a ten-year-old. Yo, tell it like it is. And it’s like, no you don’t. You need to think and spell it right and have good grammar.
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Everybody I know in England was raised on Mose Allison.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
If a man’s fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
It’s difficult when you’re successful, to admit that you need help.
The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love!
There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.
As far as being in the spotlight and under public scrutiny, a lot of that’s about how much you put yourself out there. It’s not like we go to every premiere and every celebrity function and every charity auction. We really just try to maintain our privacy and never let our public persona get out of hand.
Take it easy, be a sport. Just remeber life is short.
Ample work in mainstream political science shows that a majority of voters are not represented by their own elected representatives, who listen to different voices – the voices of the donor class, great wealth and the corporate sector.
