Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
If computers take over, it will serve us right.
To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.
To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer. ' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.
And they [illegal immigrants] will come back, but they are going to have to go out, and hopefully they get back.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Everything else can wait, agriculture can’t.