[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.
I have read your book and much like it.
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced
And I have a plan to do even better, to end welfare as we know it
". . . It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute. "
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
You have to find the tone of the piece and modulate that. There are ways to indicate that - I try to incorporate the biggest range I can within the story, going from humorous to serious without it being jarring. That's the hardest part, to keep that balance. It requires being constantly aware of where you are in the story. You can't really do that in a movie: You can't slightly modulate the tone by the way the character's eyeballs look in one certain scene.
It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native peoples. It is sadly humorous to notice that the native in South Africa, however, holds an exactly reverse opinion and the fault he finds with the South African Government is that it is far too lenient in its administration of laws throughout the native populace.
Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood, and smiting firstborn, give me a pass, and tell me when it's over.
Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.
If for some reason you are unsure where to go, all you have to do is stand there looking lost, and within seconds a helpful New Yorker will approach to see if you have any "spare" change.
Sex has been around for a long time. You may not believe this, but it was around before I was.
Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You. "
Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed
The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.
. . . it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose. . . to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.
In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago
I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.