It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.
Among the many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had getting an academic job.
You're where you wanted to be, aren't you? So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines. Stop complaining and be grateful.
You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.
If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.
What's the bravest thing you ever did?He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a...
The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...