Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.
God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.
So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes. . . . TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you. . . It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning.
Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.
What differences were there between Maradona and Platini?
What I do. . . the path I tread. . . it brings some choices that test me hard.