When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.
Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly.
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.
There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.
Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.
The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.
Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
A secret society within a secret society.
With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.
Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.