Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were. – British playwright Dennis Potter as he lay dying of cancer. Cited in the New York Times, Arts & Leisure section, p.13 December 6, 2009
What are you, a Dick Tracy or something. I’ve got to rest. – A surprised, unnamed black hooker to Benjamin, after taking the old man’s virginity at the brothel in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it’s that you can kill anyone. – Michael Corleone in Godfather II
The best thing we can say about the labor market right now is that it may be getting worse more slowly …. Jobs are likely to remain scarce for some time. – U.S. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in a talk delivered at the The Economic Club of New York in New York City a few […]
For a long time, we’d been scouring the net for a good, pithy definition for celebrity. Eureka, there it is buried in the New York Times, that vade mecum of the thinking classes. In a cover story on Megan Fox, the New York Times Magazine (p.58) has come up with a peerless definition: noise plus […]
O my son, look thee out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for thee. – A tearful Philip to his son Alexander after the young man subdued the wild horse Bucephalus, cited in Plutarch’s Lives (See Alexander, p.805)