I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.
he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.
Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.
This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.
There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.
On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it sho
Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!
But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn’t help feeling, was a very worrying thing for the world to do.
Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
