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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Written by Calvin Trillin
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
Written by Joyce Carol Oates
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Written by Cyril Connolly
I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
Written by Milton Berle
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Written by Khalil Gibran
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Written by Publilius Syrus
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Written by Buddha
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Written by Laurence J. Peter
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Written by Kin Hubbard
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
Written by Robert Wilson Lynd
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Written by Epicurus
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Written by Abraham Lincoln
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Written by Niccolo Machiavelli
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Written by Ben Stein
A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.
Written by Edward R. Murrow
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Written by Richard M. Nixon
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Written by Socrates
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Written by W. C. Fields
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
Written by Dave Barry
And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.
Written by Dave Barry
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Written by Norman Mailer
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
Written by Mary Schmich
You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
Written by Dan Quayle
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Written by Dan Quayle
He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
Written by Jack Nicklaus
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Written by Dan Quayle
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
Written by David Ogilvy
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
Written by William Bernbach
I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it.
Written by John O'Toole
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Written by Thomas Carlyle

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