If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the condition of Timothy's on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy's soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte's body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.
The bicycle. . . has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language. . . equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.
It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.
Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what you bring. That makes the characters risky in every way and the narrative, a journey of change for the reader. But I make the journey as fun as I can.
A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.
The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.