friendship

"Sometimes you feel where it was trying to go down. There’s a residue feeling and so it lasts a little bit longer. Even after you stop choking, you still feel it inside your throat. There’s something a…"

"Sic transit gloria mundi—Tuesday is usually worse."

"Figure out what we are really trying to do. . . ."

"To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology."

"I think of myself as an actor and not a movie star. I like doing movies; I enjoy it. But, essentially, I'm a theater actor. That's the only place I feel like I actually am a star. In the theater, I ca…"

"Look, my friend. I don't speak the language here, I've got no money, the food stinks, there's no rice, no beans. I'd rather be arrested in Brazil than stay in this dump of a country."

"A sudden thought strikes me,—let us swear an eternal friendship."

"Finally, empirical data suggests that assets are sold much more slowly during retirement years than when they are accumulated during working years."

"Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and …"

"Friendship was just diplomacy by other means, after all."

"That's one of those Andromedan ships! Look how you can see through the middle. That's because it's inter-dimensional. ... You hear that? The coyotes are going crazy. They always do that when the big s…"

"How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!"

"Third we must not seek to defeat or humiliate the enemy but to win his friendship and understanding. At times we are able to humiliate our worst enemy. Inevitably, his weak moments come and we are abl…"

"Superficially his work looks deep, but it's actually deeply superficial."

"Although it is difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened."

"A friend of mine in Brooklyn was talking about ethnic writers, and he was using Amy Tan as an example. And he said, "You know, the really interesting thing about ethnic writers in America right now is…"

"After divorce or loss of a father, both girls and boys experience unhappiness, but especially with divorce, girls’ grief eases within a year or two, while boys’ does not."

"In general, the best thing to do when you suspect people of trying to distract you from the truth is not to actively confront them in the beginning, but in fact to encourage them to continue by showin…"

"The process is so complicated that it offers ever so many occasions for running abnormally."

"I was noodling around Rotten Tomatoes, trying to determine who played the bank's security chief, and noticed the movie had not yet been reviewed by anybody. Hold on! In the "Forum" section for this mo…"