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You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them
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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.
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In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution.
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Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price
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That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.
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The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
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You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.
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The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
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Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.
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The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
