Montreal bagels are much better than U.S. bagels, because there's a sweetness to the dough, and there's a pull. New York bagels are basically bread in the shape of a bagel.
I'd rather get a hot dog or a doughnut than write a song.
A study by Treasury economists estimated that a country with a tax rate one percentage point lower than another country's attracts 3 percent more capital. It's not surprising then, that average OECD corporate tax rates have trended steadily downward.
President Obama's farewell speech soared, towered, dragged. True, it was longer than Reagan's, Clinton's and GWB's speeches combined. If it got any longer, it would have qualified as a third term.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.
Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.
I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Meaningful work is very different than drudgery.
I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.
You're dumber than you think I think you are.
I consider myself a better storyteller than a Dungeon Master.
Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
