They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.
Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.
To be, in a word, unborable. . . . It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish
I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.
Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.
You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.
The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.
The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis. . . surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.
I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.
If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.
Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.
The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.
The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway. . . One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.
The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.