You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G. K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
We are American at puberty. We die French.
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
That's not free market when companies go out and move and sell back into America. No, that's the dumb market, O. K. ? That's the dumb market.
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
I can't bear to hear a woman talk baby talk.
The faster you go, the idler you get.