Come on, Forney. ' Novalee, it's a parasite. ' But it's a tradition. ' It's a parasite! And you expect people yo stand under it and kiss?' Yes! it's what people do with mistletoe.
We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
All men of action are dreamers.
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich.
I watch the best. I'm a big fan of Elvis. I'm a big fan of 1950s Elvis when he would go on stage and scare people because he was a force and girls would go nuts! You can say the same thing for Prince or The Police. It's just guys who know that people are here to see a show, so I watch those guys and I love studying them because I'm a fan.
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.
Staying in a hotel this time. They put me up in a little bit of a shithole. Yeah. Just this side of rinky dink. The first 7 floors are a homeless shelter, but I'm on 8.