» He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
» Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
» He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln
» He is a self-made man and worships his creator.
- Irvin S. Cobb
» He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.
- Forrest Tucker
» He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
- Billy Wilder
» The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man didn't have to watch.
- Dave Barry
» It is not necesssary to understand things in order to argue about them.
- Caron de Beaumarchais
» Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Ambrose Bierce
» Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victems he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler
» I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?
- Jean Cocteau
» The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.
- J. Paul Getty
» When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- Eric Hoffer
» A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
- Kin Hubbard
» Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
- Oscar Levant
» Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in memory as the wish to forget it.
- Montaigne
» The trouble with a kitten is that it eventually beomes a cat.
- Ogden Nash
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