You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve read more
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.
Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would read more
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes read more
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time read more
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting].
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap read more
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
