If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.
Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.
Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.
It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
What is charm, it is not a moral quality. . it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even. . it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.
Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.
It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.
Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days, the hours, when a walk of two miles, every step of which was pleasant, as it brought him nearer and nearer to her, took him to her sweet presence - every step of which was rich, as each recurring moment that bore him away from her made him recal some fresh grace in her demeanour, or pleasant pungency in her character.
I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.
Let no man thirst for good beer.
The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this year, you might get 20 different answers. If you then asked 20 baseball experts who is going to represent the American League in the World Series, at least 90 percent of them would say the Yankees and the rest would say Seattle.