The time for crying with your girlfriends about a broken heart is over chocolate ice cream and chick flicks—not stun guns and bulletproof vests.
But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.
Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.
I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love. . . You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that
The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
And maybe the cereal makers by and large have learned to be less crazy about fighting for market share-because if you get even one person who's hell-bent on gaining market share. . . . For example, if I were Kellogg and I decided that I had to have 60% of the market, I think I could take most of the profit out of cereals. I'd ruin Kellogg in the process. But I think I could do it.
Humanity is a comic role.
I was very tiny. . . I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.
Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself.