The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.
Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.
An Isaac Mizrahi fashion-show ticket signed by Steven Meisel. I rushed up to Meisel at the end of the show and asked him to autograph the card that had his name and seating assignment on it. It was an incredible moment when he shot the autumn/winter 2014 Moschino campaign.
The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.
Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.
Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
