Success comes in cans, not cannots.
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now...
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the...
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness...
In ten years, you'll be on a stamp /where anyone at all can lick you.
Sometimes idiots can accomplish wonderful things.
People submit tooeasily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, wheneverthey consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what theyare giving up, never what they are about to gain
Everything you desire is always justoutside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would alreadypossess it, would you not?
Success would bea fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it witha single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No,success has several layers to its pallet....
But everyone wanted to be a Big Swinging Dick, even the women. Big Swinging Dickettes.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....