... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceberg, but unlike the iceberg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.
I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest. And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.
...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it.
I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties. - Harry Browne
It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions. - Harry Browne
Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous. - Harry Browne
As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.
As is so often the case with butlers, there was a good deal of Beach. Julius Caesar, who liked to have men about him who were fat, would have taken to him at once. He was a man who had made two chins grow where only one had been before, and his waistcoat swelled like the sail of a racing yacht.
For an author Jerry Vail was rather nice-looking, most authors, as is widely known, resembling in appearance the more degraded types of fish, unless they look like birds, when they could pass as vultures and no questions asked.
In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.
In build and appearance, Tuppy somewhat resembles a bulldog, and his aspect now was that of one of these fine animals who has just been refused a slice of cake.
Nature, when planning this sterling fellow, shoved in a lot more lower jaw than was absolutely necessary and made the eyes a bit too keen and piercing for one who was neither an Empire builder nor a traffic policeman.
I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
Everything is one. Everything comes from a single source. And this is how we are connected. - Max Igan
Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company's policies, a gender bigot.
How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
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