A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.
When I'm home in L.A., I go to La Brea, a bakery which does artisan breads, excellent sourdoughs primarily, but also patisserie and cakes.
Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
Chinese sausage, which is widely available from Asian grocers and online, is sweet, rich, and enticingly smoky. I add it to steamed rice with strips of omelette and a few baby veg stir-fried with soy.
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally.
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
The power which the Hellenes and even the Italians possessed, of civilizing and assimilating to themselves the nations susceptible of culture with whom they came into contact, was wholly wanting in the Phoenicians.
The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people.
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
