Make an exercise out of everything you can’t do.
A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept.
Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck.
More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!
The thing about George Barrol is that he's always putting his own and other people's feet into things that had best be left quite free of feet.
I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.
There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.
Anger is loaded with information and energy.
Man is the namer; by this we recognize that through him pure language speaks. All nature, insofar as it communicates itself, communicates itself in language, and so finally in man. Hence, he is the lord of nature and can give names to things. Only through the linguistic being of things can he get beyond himself and attain knowledge of them-in the name. God's creation is completed when things receive their names from man, from whom in name language alone speaks.
I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.
When I talk to audiences about the size and age of the cosmos, people often say, "It makes me feel so insignificant. " I answer, "The bigger and more impersonal the universe is, the more meaningful you are, because this vast, impersonal place needs something significant to fill it up. " We've abandoned the old belief that humanity is at the physical center of the universe but more come back to believing we are at the center of meaning.