Any writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way.
Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.
You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.
Don't people know that they don't have to heckle the president of the United States? That's what Congress is for.
Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting.
Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover.
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, the - Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore, although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.
Only the bold get to the top.
A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.
In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.