Barrons, Jericho: I haven't the faintest fecking clue. He keeps saving my life. I suppose that's something.
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking.
The new industrial world is coming to us one new free-born industry at a time.
Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for -- the centre of mass.
If you want to make a chili, you're going to break some cows.
I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.
I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U. K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L. A. , during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.
It took thrift and savings, together with tremendous character and vision, to make our nation what it is today. And it will take thrift and savings, together with constant ingenuity and stamina, to conserve our remaining resources to enable us to continue to be a great nation.