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In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.
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Americans feel as though the only position they can possibly occupy is number one and if they're not number one, well, the end of the world has come.
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The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
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I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.
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I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing. It's one of my favorite thing to do, so I'm attracted to it for many reasons.
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I wish I can enjoy no food but food for thought.
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Pedagogically, we need definitions and borders. They help us get our heads around what we're talking about.
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Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.
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Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.
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People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.
