It’s a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.
The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.
The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident.
Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.
WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.
Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.
I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn’t even give me an honorable death.
As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered – only for an instant – what perhaps I’d never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back.
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man’s passing.
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”