Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for a way to get even with a world in which they are only a problem. The Hell's Angels are not visionaries, but diehards, and if they are the forerunners or the vanguard of anything it is not the "moral revolution" in vogue on college campuses, but a fast-growing legion of young unemployables whose untapped energy will inevitably find the same kind of destructive outlet that "outlaws" like the Hell's Angels have been finding for years.
When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.
I remember being fascinated by the graduated sizes and perspective on the sets [of Star Wars]. And how they put shorter people and kids in the uniforms and placed them in the distance to give the idea that these sets had more depth than they really did.
Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.