If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.
Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.
My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.
I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: No, you dont.
Part of George R. R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either.
I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.
If you serve well, your volleys are going to be so much easier. It has got to do with confidence, obviously.
One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.
There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.