Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.
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Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence - putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply - if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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