A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
I have more suits than days of the year that I get to wear them.
At Getty, I would have 20 different options for the same kind of event rather than focusing on the one image that will summarize the story.
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.
Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.
There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
Suspense is worse than disappointment.
Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.
Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.