Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only from one row of the keyboard.
That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.
Best advice I’ve ever received as a writer? Write.
ChatGPT wrote this quotation for me. Just joking. Maybe not. Guess you’ll never know…
Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
Charm is makeup for men.
Do doh da dada tay
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Can I finish what I wanna say? I don’t wanna interupt your interruption, dude. Are those ears strickly ornamental or do ever use them?
Well, I was born a coal miner’s daughter / In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler / We were poor but we had love / That’s the one thing that daddy made sure of
Look…I choose peace but, say…Don’t walk up on me wrong. This Tea and Incense can turn into Colt 45 and Newports if NEED be, OK?
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If this isn’t nice, then what is?
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
Russian warship, go f*ck yourself.
Don’t vomit on your picture, because it is the picture which can vomit on you after you are dead.
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Do the math, and you’ll find that a million seconds is about 12 days. And a billion seconds? That’s about 32 years.
Paradise is separated from hell only by an imaginary line, so it is said.
Man alive!
Let the machine do the dirty work.
Again one sees the scramble for security at the cost of freedom. We are all chasing security, countries and individuals alike. But in these unsettled times what guarantees a man security? Certainly not money. No, one’s greatest security is to be loved. Banks fail, love never.
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
I’m interested in architecture, but it’s no good thing being an architect if you are interested in architecture. It’s like being a butcher if you are interested in animals.
Beauty is temporary, ugliness lasts forever.
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
Lack of focus is why we have a lack of greatness.
It’s not the easiest thing to try and put a smile on a face. But it’s always worth it.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Please, could you expel, or, at least, restrain, the comma‐maniac, on your editorial staff?
If an ass goes traveling, he’ll not come back a horse.
Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
The Americans are very impressionable people; they see what they want to see. I have a lot of respect for them. I am not upset at all that I ended up on this list. If they want to see the devil, let them see him.
Beauty conforms to the demands of the spirit.
I often can’t tell if people are at peace or just being dull.
Talent is like the marksman who hits a target that others cannot reach, genius like one who hits a target beyond where others can even see…
Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Excellence has no sex.
…most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
You really can’t think of a self‐driving vehicle as merely a car—fundamentally, it’s a robot on four wheels that looks and feels like a car.
I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.
A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with, he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?
You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning‐bug and the lightning.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.
In his highest flights, musical and architectural above all, for they are one, man gives the illusion of rivaling the order, the majesty and the splendor of the heavens.
Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
There are no born masters of typography.
How to write a good short story:
Swallow a toad in the morning if you want to encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
Downtown L.A. looks like they started to build Chicago and then gave up…and let it become a sprawling suburb.
If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order that is not understood.
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
Committee—a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
It was as undesigned as possible.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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