A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.
blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.
there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.
who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?
Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual. ' Well-business as usual, Mr. Ward!
If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.
You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.
When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'