You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
I started at the top and worked my way down.
I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
