I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.
Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.
Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
First dentistry was painless. Then bicycles were chainless, Carriages were horseless, And many laws enforceless. Next cookery was fireless, Telegraphy was wireless, Cigars were nicotineless, And coffee caffeineless. Soon oranges were seedless, The putting green was weedless, The college boy was hatless, The proper diet fatless. New motor roads are dustless, The latest steel is rustless, Our tennis courts are sodless, Our new religion--godless.
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.
He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.
When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.
The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.
I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.
I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.
It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.