Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
I'd rather shut myself in a room for six months than act in a bad movie.
I'd rather be playing bridge than making a bad movie.
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.
The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.
I'm actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. I lean more towards Cirque du Soleil than Barnum and Bailey.
The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.
I would say it's a lot easier to develop a decoy system than to develop the intercontinental ballistic missile itself. I would think that any country that could develop the missile could develop quite a decoy system. It doesn't have to be terribly sophisticated.
'House of Balloons' was actually supposed to have more songs than it does.
