An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring. . . 'How to Build a Boat. '
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier. . . I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.
Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us.
[Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take the time to inform ourselves about the best arguments on all sides of questions so that we can make up our own minds.
By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.