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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
James Thurber
If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.
Saint Francis de Sales
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
John H. Patterson
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot
Part of the ability to keep writing over the years comes down to living with the expectation of disappointment. It's the exact opposite of capitalism. In capitalism you want your business to succeed, and to the degree it does your energy increases, and you go out and buy an even bigger business. In writing it's almost the exact opposite. You just want to keep the store going. You're not going to do as well this year as last year probably, but nonetheless let's keep the store going. What ruins most writers of talent is that they don't get enough experience, so their novels tend to develop a certain paranoid perfection.
Norman Mailer
(Kenneth) Star...(has) done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available.
Larry Flint
Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen.
Anonymous
Trust: Just as you would not want to do business with someone you can't trust, this law simply stated is: When you can completely trust the process of the universe and life, you will be supplied abundantly and you will be able to make your life work just the way you want it. And the trust you give and have must be 100% or it is zero. It cannot be given under one condition and not under another. There are many things we trust with our lives and have no concern about. Such as: the sun will come up every day; the law of gravity works all the time; the pilot who pilots the plane we fly on, is competent; our garbage is picked up on certain days. If we could not trust the things we take for granted will occur without any effort on our part, the fear for our well being would be so great we would not be able to enjoy our lives. Can you imagine what the world would be like, if we could not trust the food we buy, the water we drink or that the people we depend on would not manipulate or harm us? But the only way we can expect others to trust us is, we need to be trustworthy ourselves, and especially to ourselves. Unfortunately, many people don't trust themselves and the judgments and decisions they make. Therefore, they experience disharmony with their lives and their world.
Sidney Madwed
When you see the handwriting on the wall, your in the toilet.
Redd Foxx
I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.
Wil Wheaton
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber
The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.
Samuel Butler
Self-trust, we know, is the first secret of success.
Lady Wilde
Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by serenity.
Moses Hasid
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Gail Sheehy
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
Frank Herbert
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron
America represents something universal in the human spirit. I received a letter not long ago from a man who said, 'You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won't become a German or a Turk.' But then he added, 'Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.'
Ronald Reagan
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Henry Fielding
EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time in gratification from the senses.
Ambrose Bierce
