If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.
My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
I grew up a Dodger and got drafted by the Dodgers.
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
Dogs are forever in the push up postion.
I grew up in Arizona listening to Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton.
Marlon Brando came up to me many, many years ago. He wanted me to do a little doodle for him on the back of an airline ticket.
I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking.
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
As so often happened during the dot-com bubble days, the revenues that AOL and PurchasePro were counting on did not materialize. And instead of confronting that harsh reality, AOL and PurchasePro cooked up a scheme to inflate PurchasePro's revenues.
Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.
